ABSTRACT

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. Frailty Models in Survival Analysis presents a compreh

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|40 pages

Survival Analysis

chapter 3|76 pages

Univariate Frailty Models

chapter 4|30 pages

Shared Frailty Models

chapter 5|48 pages

Correlated Frailty Models

chapter 6|34 pages

Copula Models