In medical prognosis based on survival analysis, there is an interest in visualizing the shape of the hazard function. In fully parametric models, the shape of the hazard function is constrained by the properties of the chosen distribution (Weibull, log-logistic, lognormal, Gompertz, gamma). The...

In the presence of dependent competing risks in survival analysis, the Cox proportional hazards model can be utilised to examine covariate effects on the cause-specific hazard function for each type of failure. The method proposed by Lunn and McNeil (1995) requires data augmentation. With k...