Research in the field of survival analysis has increased
tremendiously over the last several decades because of its large usage
in areas related to biology, medicine, public health and epidemiology.
Cox proportional hazard model is widely applicable to analyze survival
data but there are few probability distributions for survival time that
can be used with these models. In such a situation the accelerated
failure time (AFT) models and proportional odd are alternative to the
Cox proportional hazard model for the analysis of the survival time
data. Cox proportional hazard (PH) model, accelerated failure time (AFT)
model and Proportional odd (PO) model describe the relationship between
survival probabilities and set of covariates. We compared flexible
nonparametric models with categorical and continuous covariates in time
to event data. The models based on Dirichlet process, Polya tree prior
and their dependent extension. The models are illustrated by Cancer
data.