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SUBMITTER: Abrams S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5836988 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Abrams Steven S Wienke Andreas A Hens Niel N
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics 20170808 3
Frailty models are often used in survival analysis to model multivariate time-to-event data. In infectious disease epidemiology, frailty models have been proposed to model heterogeneity in the acquisition of infection and to accommodate association in the occurrence of multiple types of infection. Although traditional frailty models rely on the assumption of lifelong immunity after recovery, refinements have been made to account for reinfections with the same pathogen. Recently, Abrams and Hens ...[more]