The Survival Kit: Software to analyze survival data including possibly correlated random effects

Authors:
G. MéSzáRos;J. SöLkner;V. Ducrocq
Affiliations:
Division of Livestock Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Str. 33, A-1180 Vienna, Austria;Division of Livestock Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Gregor-Mendel-Str. 33, A-1180 Vienna, Austria;INRA, UMR 1313 Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative, F-78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France
Venue:
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
Year:
2013

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Abstract

The Survival Kit is a Fortran 90 Software intended for survival analysis using proportional hazards models and their extension to frailty models with a single response time. The hazard function is described as the product of a baseline hazard function and a positive (exponential) function of possibly time-dependent fixed and random covariates. Stratified Cox, grouped data and Weibull models can be used. Random effects can be either log-gamma or normally distributed and can account for a pedigree structure. Variance parameters are estimated in a Bayesian context. It is possible to account for the correlated nature of two random effects either by specifying a known correlation coefficient or estimating it from the data. An R interface of the Survival Kit provides a user friendly way to run the software.