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Shared Gamma Frailty Models

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Modeling Survival Data Using Frailty Models

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The shared gamma frailty model is a more widely used frailty distribution in the literature. In this chapter, we consider frailty distribution as gamma distribution because as the gamma variates are positive, it fits the nonnegative criterion of frailties with no transformation.

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Hanagal, D.D. (2019). Shared Gamma Frailty Models. In: Modeling Survival Data Using Frailty Models. Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1181-3_9

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