I'm reading the textbook *SURVIVAL ANALYSIS Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data* by Klein and Moeschberger, and in Chapter 3.5 it says > Data from experiments involving right censoring can be conveniently represented by pairs of random variables $(T, C_r)$, where $C_r$ indicates whether the lifetime X is observed ($\delta = 1$) or not ($\delta = 0$), and T is equal to X if the lifetime is observed and to $C_r$ if it is right-censored, i.e., $T = \min(X, C_r)$. Details of constructing the likelihood function for Type I censoring are as follows. For $\delta = 0$, it can be seen that $$Pr(T, \delta = 0) = Pr(T = C_r|\delta = 0) Pr(\delta = 0) = Pr(\delta = 0) = Pr(X > C_r) = S(C_r)$$ Also, for $\delta = 1$, $\begin{aligned} Pr(T,\delta = 1) &= Pr(T=X|\delta = 1)Pr(\delta = 1) \\ &= Pr (X = T | X \leq C_r) Pr (X \leq Cr) \\ &= \left(\frac{f(t)}{1-S(Cr)}\right) \left(1-S(Cr)\right) \\ &= f(t) \end{aligned}$ I'm confused about the following: 1. when $\delta = 0$, from step 2 to step 3, it seems to let $Pr(T = C_r|\delta = 0) = 1$, but I'm not sure why is that 2. when $\delta = 1$, we have $Pr (X = T | X \leq C_r) = \frac{Pr(X = T = t \land X \leq C_r)}{Pr( X \leq C_r)}$, but why is the numerator equals to $f(t)$? Thanks!