Survival analysis
Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) Model
The Accelerated Failure Time model is a parametric regression approach to survival analysis — formally reviewed and advocated by L. J. Wei in 1992 — in which covariates act as multiplicative factors that directly stretch or compress the time-to-event scale. Unlike the Cox proportional-hazards model, which models how covariates shift the hazard rate, AFT models express the covariate effect as an acceleration or deceleration of the time axis itself.
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- Wei, L. J. (1992). The Accelerated Failure Time Model: A Useful Alternative to the Cox Regression Model in Survival Analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 11(14–15), 1871–1879. DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780111409 ↗
- Kalbfleisch, J. D. & Prentice, R. L. (2002). The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN: 978-0471363576
- Kleinbaum, D. G. & Klein, M. (2012). Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text (3rd ed.). Springer. ISBN: 978-1441966452