A comparative study of maximum likelihood and bayesian estimation approaches in estimating of gamma frailty mixture survival model parameters

Frailty mixture survival models are survival models that allow for a cured fraction and frailty at the same time. This study applies Gamma frailty mixture survival model on time-to-recurrence data of leukaemia patients who received an autologous treatment. The model involves 4 unknown parameters inc...

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Main Author: Oh, Yit Leng
Format: Thesis
Published: 2010
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