Correlated destructive generalized power series cure rate models and associated inference with an application to a cutaneous melanoma data

In this paper, we propose a new cure rate survival model, which extends the model of Rodrigues et al. (2011) by incorporating a structure of dependence between the initiated cells. To create the structure of the correlation between the initiated cells, we use an extension of the generalized power series distribution by including an additional parameter ρ (the inflated-parameter generalized power series (IGPS) distribution, studied by Kolev and …