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Pseudo full likelihood estimation for prospective survival analysis with a general semiparametric shared frailty model: asymptotic theory

Statistics Theory 2007-06-13 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

In this work we present a simple estimation procedure for a general frailty model for analysis of prospective correlated failure times. Earlier work showed this method to perform well in a simulation study. Here we provide rigorous large-sample theory for the proposed estimators of both the regression coefficient vector and the dependence parameter, including consistent variance estimators.

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@article{arxiv.math/0602253,
  title  = {Pseudo full likelihood estimation for prospective survival analysis with a general semiparametric shared frailty model: asymptotic theory},
  author = {David M. Zucker and Malka Gorfine and Li Hsu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0602253},
  year   = {2007}
}