Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1148382 | Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference | 2009 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
A multivariate frailty model in which survival function depends on baseline distributions of components and the frailty random variable is considered. Since misspecification in choice of frailty distribution and/or baseline distribution may affect the distribution of multivariate frailty model, using theory of stochastic orders, we compare multivariate frailty models arising from different choices of frailty distribution.
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Authors
Neeraj Misra, Nitin Gupta, Rameshwar D. Gupta,