In spite of the great amount of research and works published about the lifetime in the area of entomology, it is not common to find some which had utilized techniques of Survival Analysis. This work has the objectives to evaluate the possibility of applying censoring mechanisms in the entomological data and to study the viability of the application of log-rank test. Real entomological data without censoring of males and females of Ceraeochrysa cubana were utilized. By means of simulation a sub-routine was set up in SAS® in which, the random and type I censoring were introduced. Applying the log-rank test for comparing the resulting curves, this for different percentage of censure. Utilizing the real and simulation the data, it was detected with an increase of censoring presence, the accuracy of the log-rank test has been decreasing.
Censoring; lifetime; survival analysis
