ABSTRACT
Bivariate exponential distributions are widely employed while discussing the parametric survival analysis of two components of a system. The medical literature considers paired organs like kidneys, eyes, lungs, breasts, etc., of an individual as a two components system, which work under interdependency circumstances. There are several text books that address the univariate survival analysis from the frequentist and Bayesian perspective, these include Lawless (1982), Cox and Oakes (1984), Lee and Wang (2003), Kalb eisch and Prentice (2002), and Ibrahim et al. (2001). Although these books contain versatile analysis of univariate survival data, very few of them attempted the analysis of paired data. In fact, there are many bivariate distribution (see Kotz et al., 2000) that can be employed for the analysis of paired data.
