The Frailty Model

• Main Authors: Duchateau, Luc (Author), Janssen, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Cancer research.; Infectious diseases.; Computer simulation.; Biometrics (Biology).; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Cancer Research.; Simulation and Modeling.; Biometrics.; Infectious Diseases.

Clustered survival data are encountered in many scientific disciplines including human and veterinary medicine, biology, epidemiology, public health and demography. Frailty models provide a powerful tool to analyse clustered survival data. In contrast to the large number of research publications on...

Table of Contents:

• Parametric proportional hazards models with gamma frailty
• Alternatives for the frailty model
• Frailty distributions
• The semiparametric frailty model
• Multifrailty and multilevel models
• Extensions of the frailty model.