frailtypack: A computer program for the analysis of correlated failure time data using penalized likelihood estimation

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 154-164

  Rondeau, Virginie ^a   Gonzalez, Juan R ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Correlated survival times; Frailty models; Penalized likelihood; Recurrent event

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CORRELATION THEORY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

COLORECTAL CANCER; CORRELATED SURVIVAL TIMES; FRAILTY MODELS; PENALIZED LIKELIHOOD; RECURRENT EVENT;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 27144448994     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2005.06.010     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. D. Clayton A model for association in bivariate life tables and its application in epidemiological studies of familial tendency in chronic disease incidence Biometrika 65 1978 141 151
2. P. Hougaard Frailty models for survival data LIDA 1 1995 255 273
3. T. Therneau, and P. Grambsch Modeling Survival Data: Extending the Cox Model 2000 Springer-Verlag New York
4. P.J. Kelly A review of software packages for analyzing correlated survival data Am. Stat. 58 2004 337 342
5. J.P. Klein, M.L. Moeschberger, Y.H. Li, and S.T. Wang Estimating Random Effects in the Framingham Heart Study, Survival Analysis: State of the Art 1992 Kluwer Academic Boston, Massachusetts 99 120
6. G.G. Nielsen, R.D. Gill, P.K. Andersen, and T.I.A. Sorensen A counting process approach to maximum likelihood estimation in frailty models Scand. J. Stat. 19 1992 25 43
7. T.J. Hastie, and R.J. Tibshirani Varying-coefficient models (with discussion) JRSSB 55 1993 757 796
8. T.M. Therneau, P.M. Grambsch, and V.S. Pankratz Penalized survival models and frailty J. Comput. Graph. Stat. 12 2003 156 175
9. V. Rondeau, D. Commenges, and P. Joly Maximum penalized likelihood estimation in frailty models LIDA 9 2003 139 153
10. D.R. Cox Regression models and life tables (with discussion) J. R. Stat. Soc. B 34 1972 187 220
11. R.J. Gray Flexible methods for analyzing survival data using splines, with applications to breast cancer prognosis JASA 87 1992 942 951
12. S.G. Self, and K. Liang Asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimators and likelihood ratio tests under nonstandard Conditions JASA 82 1987 605 610
13. J.O. Ramsay Monotone regression splines in action Stat. Sci. 3 1988 425 461
14. P. Joly, D.L. Letenneur, A. Alioum, and D. Commenges PHMPL: a computer program for hazard estimation using a penalized likelihood method with interval-censored and left-truncated data Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. 60 1999 225 231
15. L. Duchateau, P. Janssen, I. Kessic, and C. Fortpied Evolution of recurrent asthma event rate over time in frailty models Appl. Stat. 52 2003 355 363
16. P. Andersen, and R. Gill Cox's regression model for counting processes: a large sample study Ann. Stat. 10 1982 1100 1120
17. D. Marquardt An algorithm for least-squares estimation of nonlinear parameters SIAM J. Appl. Math. 11 1963 431 441
18. R Development Core Team, R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing, R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria, http://www.r-project.org, 2004.
19. N. Mantel, N.R. Bohidar, and J.L. Cinimera Mantel-Haenszel analyses of litter-matched time-to-response data, with modificatiosn for recorvery of interlitter information Cancer Res. 37 1977 3863 3868
20. J.R. Gonzalez, E. Fernandez, V. Moreno, J. Ribes, M. Peris, M. Navarro, M. Cambray, and J.M. Borras Sex differences in hospital readmission among colorectal cancer patients J. Epidemiol. Community Health 59 2005 506 511
21. L.J. Wei, D.Y. Lin, and L. Weissfeld Regression analysis of multivariate incomplete failure time data by modeling marginal distributions J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 84 1989 1065 1073