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Journal of computing and information technology, Vol. 4 No. 4, 1996.

Original scientific paper

Frailty Models in Survival Analysis

Johann Sölkner orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-1517-5829 ; Department of Livestock Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna, Austria

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Abstract

The use of frailty models to account for unobserved individual he terogeneity and other random effects in survival analysis are discussed. After a description of proportional hazards models including random effects, the bio logical meaning of frailty and the res ulting problems for analys is are pointed out. The Survival Kit, a set of Fortran programs fo r the analysis of univariate frailty models has been developed by V. Ducrocq (Fr) and the author. Features of the Survival Kit are presented.

Keywords

Survival analysis; random effects; frailty model; individual heterogeneity

Hrčak ID:

150277

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/150277

Publication date:

30.12.1996.

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