On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about the output for variance of random effect from a gamma > frailty model using coxph in R. Is it the vairance of frailties themselves or > variance of log frailties? Thanks. >
For a Gamma frailty model it is the variance of the Gamma distribution, so the variance of the frailties. For Gaussian frailty it will be the log frailties, though. -thomas ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html