A study on comparisons of additive regression frailty models to counter heterogeneity: Bayesian strategies and case study
subject: Bayesian estimation frailty model; Hazard rate; Random censoring; Survival distributions
description: Historically, the primary goal of conventional survival study methods has been to reduce the frequency of failures over time. If the associated observed and unobserved variables are not known when studying such events, this can have detrimental effects. Frailty models offer a tempting solution for investigating the impact of unknown variables in such a case. In this article, we assume that frailty affects the hazard rate. We find that the weighted Lindley frailty models, which use general versions of the Weibull and log-logistic type II distributions as the baseline distributions, are a reliable method for ensuring the influence of endogenous variability. The parameters involved are estimated according to different loss functions using the Bayesian structure as the basis of Markov Chain Monte Carlo. Bayesian evaluation strategies are then implemented to evaluate the models. The results are demonstrated on known data of kidney infections. It is shown that the novel models outperform those based on the inverse Gaussian and gamma frailty distributions. 2024 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
creator: Tyagi, Shikhar; Pandey, Arvind; Hanagal, David D.; Chesneau, Christophe
source: Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation;Volume;54;Issue;11;pp.4690-4711
publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
date: 01-01-2025
rights: Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
relation: ISSN: 3610918;
format: online
language: English
type: Article
coverage: Tyagi S., Department of Statistics, Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Christ University, Bengaluru, India; Pandey A., Department of Statistics, Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India; Hanagal D.D., Department of Statistics, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India; Chesneau C., Department of Mathematics, University of Caen-Normandy, Caen, France