Comparison of Shared Frailty Models for Kidney Infection Data under Exponential Power Baseline Distribution

David D. Hanagal and Alok D. Dabade

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2015, vol. 44, issue 23, 5091-5108

Abstract: Shared frailty models are often used to model heterogeneity in survival analysis. There are certain assumptions about the baseline distribution and distribution of frailty. In this paper, four shared frailty models with frailty distribution gamma, inverse Gaussian, compound Poisson, and compound negative binomial with exponential power as baseline distribution are proposed. These models are fitted using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. These models are illustrated with a real life bivariate survival data set of McGilchrist and Aisbett (1991) related to kidney infection, and the best model is suggested for the data using different model comparison criteria.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2013.813045

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