In some long term medical follow-up studies, a series of dependent and possibly censored failure times may be observed. Suppose that these failure times were generated from the same distribution function, and inferences about it are of our main interest. In this article, we show that under...

Multivariate failure time data arises when each study subject can potentially ex-perience several types of failures or recurrences of a certain phenomenon, or when failure times are sampled in clusters. We formulate the marginal distributions of such multivariate data with semiparametric...