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  • Biostatistics
  • Survival Analysis

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  • Long-term survival models are crucial in epidemiology for analyzing data with immune and susceptible patient groups.
  • Estimating unobservable heterogeneity due to unmeasured factors is essential.
  • Hazard functions can exhibit non-monotonic shapes, such as unimodal patterns.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel long-term survival model.
  • To incorporate a defective Dagum distribution with a power variance function frailty term.
  • To address unobservable heterogeneity and non-monotonic hazard functions in survival data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a defective Dagum distribution.
  • Incorporated a power variance function frailty term for heterogeneity.
  • Reparameterized the distribution for cure fraction and used a logit link for covariates.

Main Results:

  • The proposed model accommodates survival data with cure fractions and non-monotonic hazards.
  • Covariate effects on the cure fraction are directly interpretable.
  • Maximum likelihood estimation was employed and validated via Monte Carlo simulations.

Conclusions:

  • The developed model provides a flexible framework for analyzing complex survival data in epidemiology.
  • It effectively handles unobservable heterogeneity and non-monotonic hazard functions.
  • Demonstrated applicability in analyzing severe COVID-19 and malignant skin neoplasm data.