Shared frailty models are a way of allowing correlated observations into proportional hazards models. Briefly, instead of l_i(t) = l_0(t)e^(x_iB), we allow l_ij(t) = l_0(t)e^(x_ijB + g_i), where observations j are in clusters i, g_i is typically norma...

As we continue with our series on survival analysis, we demonstrate how to plot estimated (smoothed) hazard functions. RWe will utilize the routines available in the muhaz package. Background information on the methods can be found in K.R. Hess, D.M....

In our previous example, we demonstrated how to calculate the Kaplan-Meier estimate of the survival function for time to event data. A related quantity is the Nelson-Aalen estimate of cumulative hazard. In addition to summarizing the hazard incurred ...

In example 7.30 we demonstrated how to simulate data from a Cox proportional hazards model.In this and the next few entries, we expand upon support in R and SAS for survival (time-to-event) models. We'll start with a small, artificial dataset of 19 su...

To simulate survival data with censoring, we need to model the hazard functions for both time to event and time to censoring. We simulate both event times from a Weibull distribution with a scale parameter of 1 (this is equivalent to an exponential ra...