7. Conclusion
I have here replied to Honig and Samuelsson’s (2014) paper on the need to extend and replicate studies, especially on business planning. In their efforts to criticize Delmar and Shane (2003), Honig and Samuelsson (2014) made a number of incorrect statements about that paper and about how to test theoretical arguments on data from a prevalence cohort design. Criticism and progress in theory, design and analysis is the nature of research. Future studies will, no doubt, inform us further. Possible venues are analyses dealing with truncated data incorporating full data (with the full use of time-dependent covariates) and dealing with left censoring.
