General Semiparametric Shared Frailty Model: Estimation and Simulation with frailtySurv

The R package frailtySurv for simulating and fitting semi-parametric shared frailty models is introduced. Package frailtySurv implements semi-parametric consistent estimators for a variety of frailty distributions, including gamma, log-normal, inverse Gaussian and power variance function, and provid...

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Main Authors: John V. Monaco, Malka Gorfine, Li Hsu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/2387