A Bayesian destructive generalized Waring regression cure model with a variance decomposition and application in colorectal cancer data

In this paper, we develop a Bayesian two-stage cure rate model whose biological destructive mechanism (immune system) of the competing risk factors of death is suitable for detecting the impact on the long-term survival function of three sources of variance well-known in accident theory: randomness, liability and proneness. From a survival analysis viewpoint, proneness means individual effect or destructive mechanism and liability corresponds …