Abstract
In this study, a modelling strategy is developed to obtain more information from censored obser-
vations. By the proposed approach, uncensored observations are clustered using a fuzzy c-means algorithm
and the degrees to which censored observations are members of these clusters are determined. Censored
observations are weighted based on their membership values and the distances between the censoring time
and the time components of the cluster centres. Further, simulation studies are performed to characterize
the performance of the proposed approach based on the explained risk measure.