The Modelling of a Cure Fraction in Bivariate Time-to-Event Data

Three correlated frailty models are used to analyze bivariate timeto- event data by assuming gamma, log-normal and compound Poisson distributed frailty. All approaches allow to deal with right censored lifetime data and account for heterogeneity as well as for a non-susceptible (cure) fraction in th...

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Main Authors: Andreas Wienke, Isabella Locatelli, Anatoli I. Yashin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Austrian Statistical Society 2016-04-01
Series:Austrian Journal of Statistics
Online Access:http://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/349