frailtyEM: An R Package for Estimating Semiparametric Shared Frailty Models

When analyzing correlated time to event data, shared frailty (random effect) models are particularly attractive. However, the estimation of such models has proved challenging. In semiparametric models, this is further complicated by the presence of the nonparametric baseline hazard. Although recent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Theodor Adrian Balan, Hein Putter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
r
Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/3112