title: The Survival Kit: software to analyze survival data including possibly correlated random effects.
abstract: The Survival Kit is a Fortran 90 Software intended for survival analysis using proportional hazards models and their extension to frailty models with a single response time. The hazard function is described as the product of a baseline hazard function and a positive (exponential) function of possibly time-dependent fixed and random covariates. Stratified Cox, grouped data and Weibull models can be used. Random effects can be either log-gamma or normally distributed and can account for a pedigree structure. Variance parameters are estimated in a Bayesian context. It is possible to account for the correlated nature of two random effects either by specifying a known correlation coefficient or estimating it from the data. An R interface of the Survival Kit provides a user friendly way to run the software.
authors: Division of Livestock Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Str. 33, A-1180 Vienna, Austria. gabor.meszaros@boku.ac.at
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Mészáros
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Sölkner
authors: V
authors: V
authors: Ducrocq
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria / Q000453:epidemiology; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012984:Software; D016019:Survival Analysis
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