Frailty Models in Survival Analysis

摘要

Frailty models are extensions of the well-known Cox proportional hazards model and provide a convenient way of introducing random effects, association, and unobserved heterogeneity into the modelling process. There are very few books that focus on frailty models with the most recent one authored by Duchateau and Janssen [1]. The present book goes beyond its predecessors by focusing not only on univariate models but also on extensions to multivariate modelling where event times are clustered.