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Frailty models in survival analysis /

"The concept of frailty offers a convenient way to introduce unobserved heterogeneity and associations into models for survival data. In its simplest form, frailty is an unobserved random proportionality factor that modifies the hazard function of an individual or a group of related individuals...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wienke, Andreas
Formato: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2011.
coleção:Chapman & Hall/CRC biostatistics series.
Assuntos:
Sumário:
  • Introduction
  • Survival analysis
  • Univariate frailty models
  • Shared frailty models
  • Correlated frailty models
  • Copula models
  • Different aspects of frailty modeling.