On Small Samples Testing for Frailty Through Homogeneity Test

This page lists questions we have about your paper. The numbers displayed at left can be found in the text of the paper for reference. In addition, please review your paper as a whole for correctness. Q1. Au: Primary and Secondary classifications are required. Please provide the appropriate primary and secondary classifications from 5 We derive a test in order to examine the need of modeling survival data using frailty 6 models based on the likelihood ratio (LR) test for homogeneity. Test is developed for 7 both complete and censored samples from a family of baseline distributions that satisfy 8 a closure property. Approach motivated by I-divergence distance is used in order to 9 determine " credible " regions for all parameters of baseline distribution for which 10 homogeneity hypothesis is not rejected. Proposed test outperforms the usual asymptotic 11 LR test both in very small samples with known frailty and for all small sample sizes 12 under misspecified frailty.