Journal article
Generalized gamma frailty model
Abstract
In this article, we present a frailty model using the generalized gamma distribution as the frailty distribution. It is a power generalization of the popular gamma frailty model. It also includes other frailty models such as the lognormal and Weibull frailty models as special cases. The flexibility of this frailty distribution makes it possible to detect a complex frailty distribution structure which may otherwise be missed. Due to the …
Authors
Balakrishnan N; Peng Y
Journal
Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 25, No. 16, pp. 2797–2816
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
August 30, 2006
DOI
10.1002/sim.2375
ISSN
0277-6715