Abstract Details
|
Activity Number:
|
77
|
|
Type:
|
Contributed
|
|
Date/Time:
|
Sunday, August 4, 2013 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
|
|
Sponsor:
|
Biometrics Section
|
| Abstract - #309459 |
|
Title:
|
Birnbaum-Saunders Frailty Model
|
|
Author(s):
|
Lin Fang*+ and Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan
|
|
Companies:
|
McMaster University and McMaster University
|
|
Keywords:
|
censoring ;
clustered data ;
Birnbaum-Saunders distribution ;
Monte Carlo approximation ;
quadrature
|
|
Abstract:
|
The Birnbaum-Saunders distribution has been used quite effectively to model positively skewed lifetime data. In this paper, we present a frailty model using the BS distribution as the frailty distribution. We carry out maximum likelihood estimation in the model either by Monte Carlo simulation or by quadrature method. Next, the performance of the proposed frailty model is examined by a simulation study. Finally, a numerical data analysis is performed in order to demonstrate the merits of proposed model.
|
Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
Back to the full JSM 2013 program
|
2013 JSM Online Program Home
For information, contact jsm@amstat.org or phone (888) 231-3473.
If you have questions about the Continuing Education program, please contact the Education Department.
The views expressed here are those of the individual authors and not necessarily those of the JSM sponsors, their officers, or their staff.
Copyright © American Statistical Association.