Modelling conditional distributions in bivariate survival.
Conditional distributions for bivariate survival can be obtained via a model for the joint distribution, or, as has sometimes been suggested, by modelling the conditioned variable directly, with the conditioning variable included as a covariate. A quantitative comparison of estimated covariate effects and predictive distributions under the two approaches is given. The results are illustrated in a novel frailty application.
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Lancaster, UK. henderr1@lancaster.ac.uk
D006801:Humans; D015993:Life Tables; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D015233:Models, Statistical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016019:Survival Analysis