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Frailty Models in Survival Analysis

Name: Frailty Models in Survival Analysis
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ISBN: 9781040068625

Clinical trials Epidemiology and Medical statistics Probability and statistics Biology, life sciences Pharmaceutical chemistry and technology

Author: Andreas Wienke

Collection: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

Language: English

Published by: Chapman and Hall/CRC

Published on: 26th July 2010

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781040068625

The Concept of Frailty

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.