Fitting Weibull duration models with random effects
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Lifetime Data Analysis
- Vol. 1 (4) , 347-359
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00985449
Abstract
Duration time models often should include correlated failure times, due to clustered data. These random effects hierarchical models sometimes are called “frailty models” when used for survival analyses. The data analyzed here involve such correlations because patient level outcomes (the times until graft failure following kidney transplantation) are observed, but patients are clustered in different transplant centers. We describe fitting such models by combining two kinds of software, one for parametric survival regression models, and the other for doing Poisson regression in a hierarchical setting. The latter is implemented by using PRIMM (Poisson Regression and Interactive Multilevel Modeling) methods and software (Christiansen & Morris, 1994a). An illustrative example for profiling data is included withk=11 kidney transplant centers andN=412 patients.Keywords
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