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SUBMITTER: Liu B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3893096 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Bo B Lu Wenbin W Zhang Jiajia J
Biometrika 20130101 3
Clustered survival data frequently arise in biomedical applications, where event times of interest are clustered into groups such as families. In this article we consider an accelerated failure time frailty model for clustered survival data and develop nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation for it via a kernel smoother aided EM algorithm. We show that the proposed estimator for the regression coefficients is consistent, asymptotically normal and semiparametric efficient when the kernel band ...[more]