Frailtypack: An r package for the analysis of correlated survival data with frailty models using penalized likelihood estimation or parametrical estimation

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rondeau, Virginie ^a   Mazroui, Yassin ^a   Gonzalez, Juan R ^b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

Author keywords

Correlated survival data; Cross validation; Frailty models; Hazard functions; Marquardt; Penalized likelihood; R; Splines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863335452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v047.i04     Document Type: Article

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