This thesis deals with estimation in frailty models in survival analysis. Our first contribution concerns a new estimation method based on integrated partial likelihood in the frailty model. No approximation of the integrated partial likelihood is made as compared to other methods proposed in the literature. We implement a stochastic approximation of the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm to calculate the maximum of partial likelihood estimators of the model parameters. We also establish the theoretical convergence properties of the algorithm. Our method allows for different correlation structures and for a wide range of frailty distributions. Our second contribution concerns the study of the convergence rates of maximum likelihood est...
The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the methods used in modeling survival data. Since...
Os métodos de estimação para modelos de fragilidade vêm sendo bastante discutidos na literatura esta...
The hazard function plays a central role in survival analysis. In a homogeneous population, the dist...
Frailty models are often the model of choice for heterogeneous survival data. A frailty model contai...
A maximum likelihood estimation procedure is presented for the frailty model. The procedure is based...
For analyzing multiple events data, the illness death model is often used to investigate the covaria...
A computationally attractive method of estimation of parameters for a class of frailty regression mo...
2000 Mathematics Subject Classifi cation: 62J12.This study considers a robust properties of correlat...
We propose a new class of models, frailty measurement error models (FMEMs), for clustered survival d...
When analyzing correlated time to event data, shared frailty (random effect) models are particularly...
The frailty model is a random effect survival model, which allows for unobserved heterogeneity or fo...
The shared frailty models allow for unobserved heterogeneity or for statistical dependence between o...
Frailty mixture survival models are statistical models which allow for a cured fraction and frailty....
A marginal likelihood approach is proposed for estimating the parameters in a frailty model using cl...
We propose a new class of semiparametric frailty models for spatially correlated survival data. Spec...
The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the methods used in modeling survival data. Since...
Os métodos de estimação para modelos de fragilidade vêm sendo bastante discutidos na literatura esta...
The hazard function plays a central role in survival analysis. In a homogeneous population, the dist...
Frailty models are often the model of choice for heterogeneous survival data. A frailty model contai...
A maximum likelihood estimation procedure is presented for the frailty model. The procedure is based...
For analyzing multiple events data, the illness death model is often used to investigate the covaria...
A computationally attractive method of estimation of parameters for a class of frailty regression mo...
2000 Mathematics Subject Classifi cation: 62J12.This study considers a robust properties of correlat...
We propose a new class of models, frailty measurement error models (FMEMs), for clustered survival d...
When analyzing correlated time to event data, shared frailty (random effect) models are particularly...
The frailty model is a random effect survival model, which allows for unobserved heterogeneity or fo...
The shared frailty models allow for unobserved heterogeneity or for statistical dependence between o...
Frailty mixture survival models are statistical models which allow for a cured fraction and frailty....
A marginal likelihood approach is proposed for estimating the parameters in a frailty model using cl...
We propose a new class of semiparametric frailty models for spatially correlated survival data. Spec...
The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the methods used in modeling survival data. Since...
Os métodos de estimação para modelos de fragilidade vêm sendo bastante discutidos na literatura esta...
The hazard function plays a central role in survival analysis. In a homogeneous population, the dist...