“…One of the ways to handle censored data is to employ Stute's weighted least squares (SWLS) method, where weights are introduced to account for censoring in the least square frameworks. A number of studies, where weighted least squares technique is used for AFT models, have been done recently by the researchers Huang, Ma, and Xie (), Khan and Shaw (, ), Khan (), etc. The SWLS method gives estimate of for the AFT model as The quantity 's are the Kaplan–Meier weights that are defined by where under the dataset .…”