Frailty models in survival analysis / Andreas Wienke.

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. Frai...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Wienke, Andreas
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2011.
Series:	Chapman & Hall/CRC biostatistics series.
Subjects:	Failure time data analysis > Mathematics. Survival analysis (Biometry) > Mathematics. Mortality > Mathematical models. Demography > Mathematics. Mathematical models. Survival analysis (Biometry) Mortality. Demography. Mortality Mathematical models Demography Demography > Mathematics Mortality > Mathematical models