Chapter 1: Introduction.- 1.1: Goals.- 1.2: Motivating Examples.- 1.2.1:
Kidney Infection Data.- 1.2.2: Litter-Matched Rat Data.- 1.2.3: CGD
recurrent Data.- 1.2.4: Bladder Cancer Multi-Center Data.- 1.2.5: Lung
Cancer Multi-Center Data.- 1.2.6: Breast Cancer Competing Risks Data.-
1.3: Classical Survival Analysis.- 1.3.1: Hazard and Survival Function.-
1.3.2: Basic Likelihood Inference.- 1.3.3: Cox-PH Models.- 1.3.4:
Accelerated Failure Time Models.- 1.4: Overview.- Chapter 2:
H-likelihood.- 2.1: Definition of H-likelihood.- 2.2: Random Effect
Models.- 2.3: Inferential Procedures.- 2.4: Deviances based on
H-likelihood.- 2.5: Comparison of H-and Marginal likelihoods.- 2.6:
Discussion and Further Reading.- 2.7: Appendix.- Chapter 3: Simple
Frailty Models.- 3.1: Features of Correlated Survival Data.- 3.2: The
Model and H-likelihood.- 3.3: Inferential Procedures using R.- 3.4:
Interval estimation of Frailty.- 3.5: Variable Selection.- 3.6:
Discussion and Further Reading.- 3.7: Appendix.- Chapter 4:
Multi-Component Frailty Models.- 4.1: Multi-Component Frailty Models.-
4.1.1: Multilevel (Nested) Frailties.- 4.1.2: Time-Dependent Frailties.-
4.1.3: Correlated Frailties.- 4.2: Extension of Inferential Procedures.-
4.3: Model Selection.- 4.4: Software and Examples using R.- 4.5:
Discussion and Further Reading.- 4.6: Appendix.- Chapter 5: Competing
Risks Frailty Models.- 5.1: Features of Competing Risks Data.- 5.2:
Classical Competing-Risk Models.- 5.3: Cause-Specific Hazard Frailty
Models.- 5.4: Subdistribution hazard Frailty Models.- 5.5:
Semi-Competing Risks Frailty Models.- 5.6: Software and Examples using
R.- 5.7: Discussion and Further Reading.- 5.8: Appendix.- Chapter 6:
Mixed-Effect Survival Models.- 6.1: Mixed linear Models with Censoring.-
6.2: Multilevel Mixed Models with Censoring.- 6.3: Genetic Mixed Models
under LTRC.- 6.4: Software and Examples using SAS/IML.- 6.5: Discussion
and Further Reading.- 6.6: Appendix.- Chapter 7: Special Topics.- 7.1:
Dispersion Frailty Models.- 7.2: Frailty Models for Interval-Censored
Data.- 7.3: Non-PH Frailty Models.- 7.4: Joint Survival Models.- 7.5:
Frailty modelling for Missing Cause of Failure.- 7.6: Discussion and
Further Reading
