Assessing gamma frailty models for clustered failure time data

DOI10.1007/BF00985771zbMath0836.62097WikidataQ36893588 ScholiaQ36893588MaRDI QIDQ1906156

Joanna H. Shih, Thomas A. Louis

Publication date: 6 May 1996

Published in: Lifetime Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

goodness of fit; standard error; clustered failure time data; gamma distribution assumption; posterior expected frailties; proportional hazards frailty models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62A09: Graphical methods in statistics

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Uses Software

• GAUSS

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