supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.10471136 and 10971210);the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.KJCX3-SYW-S02)
The multivariate extension of the Cox model proposed by Wei,Lin and Weissfeld in 1989 has been widely used for analyzing multivariate survival data.Under the model assumption,failure times from an individual are assum...