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ArticleLifetime data analysis2021

Weighted Lindley frailty model: estimation and application to lung cancer data.

Alex Mota, Eder A Milani, Vinicius F Calsavara, Vera L D Tomazella, Jeremias Leão, Pedro L Ramos, Paulo H Ferreira, Francisco Louzada

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Alex MotaInstitute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Carlos, 13566-590, Brazil. alexlealmota@usp.br.ORCID 0000-0002-4191-6491
Eder A MilaniInstitute of Mathematical and Statistics, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Goiâs, 74690-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-5533-6693
Vinicius F CalsavaraDepartment of Epidemiology and Statistics, A.C.Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, 01508-010, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-2332-5863
Vera L D TomazellaDepartment of Statistics, Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, São Carlos, 13565-905, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-6780-2089
Jeremias LeãoDepartment of Statistics, Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, 69067-005, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-1176-0198
Pedro L RamosFacultad de Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Macul, Santiago, 7820436, Chile.ORCID 0000-0002-5387-2457
Paulo H FerreiraDepartment of Statistics, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, 40170-110, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-6312-6098
Francisco LouzadaInstitute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Carlos, 13566-590, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7815-9554

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel frailty model for modeling unobserved heterogeneity present in survival data. Our model is derived by using a weighted Lindley distribution as the frailty distribution. The respective frailty distribution has a simple Laplace transform function which is useful to obtain marginal survival and hazard functions. We assume hazard functions of the Weibull and Gompertz distributions as the baseline hazard functions. A classical inference procedure based on the maximum likelihood method is presented. Extensive simulation studies are further performed to verify the behavior of maximum likelihood estimators under different proportions of right-censoring and to assess the performance of the likelihood ratio test to detect unobserved heterogeneity in different sample sizes. Finally, to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed model, we use it to analyze a medical dataset from a population-based study of incident cases of lung cancer diagnosed in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.

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FrailtyLung NeoplasmsBrazilHumansLikelihood FunctionsProportional Hazards ModelsSurvival AnalysisLung cancerMaximum likelihood methodUnobserved heterogeneityWeighted Lindley distribution.

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