| Article ID: | iaor20118366 |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 51 |
| End Page Number: | 51 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Journal: | Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research |
| Authors: | Lee Jenq-Daw, Lee Cheng K |
| Keywords: | statistics: inference, quality & reliability |
A setting of a trivairate survival function using semi‐competing risks concept is proposed, in which a terminal event can only occur after other events. The Stanford Heart Transplant data is reanalyzed using a trivariate Weibull distribution model with the proposed survival function.