frailty model for gap times
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Lei Liu wrote:
Hi there, I have a question on the frailty model for gap times with distinct baseline hazard for each gap. Can I use R coxph function to do it? For example, the following code assumes an identical baseline hazard for every gap time, but what if I want a distinct baseline hazard for each gap? coxph(Surv(gap,status)~trt+frailty(id))
You need a stratified model, eg if gapnumber is 1,2,3,4,.. within each person coxph(Surv(gap,status)~trt+frailty(id)+strata(gapnumber)) -thomas