Variable selection in joint frailty models of recurrent and terminal events

• Published in: Biometrics Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 1330 - 1339
• Main Authors: Han, Dongxiao, Su, Xiaogang, Sun, Liuquan, Zhang, Zhou, Liu, Lei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Approximation; biometry; Data analysis; death; Frailty; frailty models; informative censoring; proportional hazards models; recurrent event; Statistical models; survival analysis; variable selection; recurrent event; variable selection; informative censoring; survival analysis; frailty models; proportional hazards models

Recurrent event data are commonly encountered in biomedical studies. In many situations, they are subject to an informative terminal event, for example, death. Joint modeling of recurrent and terminal events has attracted substantial recent research interests. On the other hand, there may exist a la...