Without details it is hard to help but I'll attach a recent paper of ours that may useful. In addition I've added some notes with examples that may help. Best, David Booth
Thank you one and all for taking the time to make much appreciated suggestions, and providing the attached files. To provide further information, here below are ideal descriptive characteristics of the type of data I wish to find for my dissertation:
1. The response variable is a time to event(which may be failure of a machine component, death, remission of a disease, moving on to another job).
2. There are other variables in the data which can serve the purpose of predictor/explanatory variables for the response variable in the data.
3. The data is recent.
Once again, thank you for the time and suggestions so far. I appreciate it a lot.