Child Survival in Brasil

library(multimcm)

We duplicate an analysis in Lai and Yau (2009) which originated in Sastry (1997) of A frequentist nested frailty model for survival data, with an application to the study of child Survival in northeast Brazil in 1976-86.

References

Lai, Xin, and Kelvin K. W. Yau. 2009. “Multilevel Mixture Cure Models with Random Effects.” Biometrical Journal 51 (3): 456–66. https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.200800222.

Sastry, Narayan. 1997. “A Nested Frailty Model for Survival Data, with an Application to the Study of Child Survival in Northeast Brazil.” Journal of the American Statistical Association 92 (438): 426–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1997.10473994.