Two-level lognormal frailty model and competing risks model with missing cause of failure

In clustered survival data, unobservable cluster effects may exert powerful influences on the outcomes and thus induce correlation among subjects within the same cluster. The ordinary partial likelihood approach does not account for this dependence. Frailty models...

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Main Author: Tang, Xiongwen
Other Authors: Jones, Michael P.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2012
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2997
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3144&context=etd