Frailty Model
The shared frailty model, introduced by Vaupel, Manton, and Stallard in 1979, extends standard survival regression by incorporating a random effect — the 'frailty' — that captures unobserved heterogeneity among subjects or clusters. When survival outcomes are measured on individuals who share a common environment (patients in the same hospital, members of the same family, animals in the same litter), a frailty term accounts for the within-cluster dependence that ordinary Cox regression ignores.
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- Vaupel, J.W., Manton, K.G. & Stallard, E. (1979). The Impact of Heterogeneity in Individual Frailty on the Dynamics of Mortality. Demography, 16(3), 439–454. · DOI 10.2307/2061224
- Hougaard, P. (2000). Analysis of Multivariate Survival Data. Springer. · DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-1304-8
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