Maximum likelihood estimations and EM algorithms with length-biased data

J Qin, J Ning, H Liu, Y Shen - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Length-biased sampling has been well recognized in economics, industrial reliability,
etiology applications, and epidemiological, genetic, and cancer screening studies. Length …

Frailty modelling for survival data from multi‐centre clinical trials

ID Ha, R Sylvester, C Legrand… - Statistics in …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the use of standardized protocols in, multi‐centre, randomized clinical trials,
outcome may vary between centres. Such heterogeneity may alter the interpretation and …

Frailty models: applications to biomedical and genetic studies

US Govindarajulu, H Lin, KL Lunetta… - Statistics in …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In survival analysis, frailty models are potential choices for modeling unexplained
heterogeneity in a population. This tutorial presents an overview and general framework of …

Semiparametric transformation models with time-varying coefficients for recurrent and terminal events

X Zhao, J Zhou, L Sun - Biometrics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we propose a family of semiparametric transformation models with time-
varying coefficients for recurrent event data in the presence of a terminal event such as …

Estimating and testing for center effects in competing risks

S Katsahian, C Boudreau - Statistics in medicine, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The problems of fitting Gaussian frailties proportional hazards models for the subdistribution
of a competing risk and of testing for center effects are considered. In the analysis of …

A class of Box-Cox transformation models for recurrent event data

L Sun, X Tong, X Zhou - Lifetime Data Analysis, 2011 - Springer
In this article, we propose a class of Box-Cox transformation models for recurrent event data,
which includes the proportional means models as special cases. The new model offers great …

On proportional reversed hazards frailty models

PG Sankaran, VL Gleeja - Metron, 2011 - Springer
Frailty models are widely employed in bivariate survival data as they allow us to model the
dependence through common random effect. The frailty models developed in literature are …

A nonparametric frailty model for clustered survival data

SOM Manda - Communications in Statistics—Theory and Methods, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Clayton-type counting process formulations for survival data and parametric gamma models
for cluster-specific frailty quantities are now routinely applied in analyses of clustered …

Studies based on the Danish Adoption Register: schizophrenia, BMI, smoking, and mortality in perspective

L Petersen, TIA Sørensen - Scandinavian journal of public …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction: The genetic and familial environmental influences making up familial
correlations in traits and familial aggregation of diseases may be disentangled by adoption …

The Aalen additive gamma frailty hazards model

T Martinussen, TH Scheike, DM Zucker - Biometrika, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we consider clustered right-censored time-to-event data. Such data can be
analysed either using a marginal model if one is interested in population effects or using so …