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Frailty and resilience models provide a convenient tool to introduce random effects, dependence and unobserved heterogeneity into the models for survival data. In this paper, we study the ageing of baseline distribution function \(H_0\) relative to ageing of frailty distribution corresponding to \(H_0\). We also study the relative ageing of frailty models having the same baseline distribution but different frailty distributions. Similar study is carried out for resilience models.
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The second author would like to acknowledge the support of Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur for the institute assistantship. On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
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Misra, N., Francis, J. Relative ageing in frailty and resilience models. Metrika 83, 171–196 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-019-00726-5
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