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- Title
Model selection for multi-component frailty models.
- Authors
Ha, Il Do; Lee, Youngjo; MacKenzie, Gilbert
- Abstract
Various frailty models have been developed and are now widely used for analysing multivariate survival data. It is therefore important to develop an information criterion for model selection. However, in frailty models there are several alternative ways of forming a criterion and the particular criterion chosen may not be uniformly best. In this paper, we study an Akaike information criterion (AIC) on selecting a frailty structure from a set of (possibly) non-nested frailty models. We propose two new AIC criteria, based on a conditional likelihood and an extended restricted likelihood (ERL) given by Lee and Nelder ( J. R. Statist. Soc. B 1996; 58:619-678). We compare their performance using well-known practical examples and demonstrate that the two criteria may yield rather different results. A simulation study shows that the AIC based on the ERL is recommended, when attention is focussed on selecting the frailty structure rather than the fixed effects. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Publication
Statistics in Medicine, 2007, Vol 26, Issue 26, p4790
- ISSN
0277-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sim.2879