Modelling Mixed Survival and Discrete Data Using Copula Function

One of the methods that in recent years has attracted the attention of many researchers for modeling multivariate mixed outcome data is using the copula function. In this paper a regression model for mixed survival and discrete outcome data based on copula function is proposed. Where the continuous variable was time and could has censored observations. For this task it is assumed that marginal distributions are known and a latent variable was used to transform discrete variable to continuous. Then by using a copula function, the joint distribution of two variables was constructed and finally the obtained model was used to model birth interval data in Ahwaz city in south-west of Iran.