parfm : Parametric Frailty Models in R

Frailty models are getting more and more popular to account for overdispersion and/or clustering in survival data. When the form of the baseline hazard is somehow known in advance, the parametric estimation approach can be used advantageously. Nonetheless, there is no unified widely available softwa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Marco Munda, Federico Rotola, Catherine Legrand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2012-11-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
R
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v51/i11/paper