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| Title: | | Inference for shared-frailty survival models with left-truncated data  |
| Authors: | | van den Berg, Gerard J. Drepper, Bettina |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6031 |
| Abstract: | | Shared-frailty survival models specify that systematic unobserved determinants of duration outcomes are identical within groups of individuals. We consider random-effects likelihood-based statistical inference if the duration data are subject to left-truncation. Such inference with left-truncated data can be performed in the Stata software package. We show that with left-truncated data, the commands ignore the weeding-out process before the left-truncation points, affecting the distribution of unobserved determinants among group members in the data, that is, among the group members who survive until their truncation points. We critically examine studies in the statistical literature on this issue as well as published empirical studies that use the commands. Simulations illustrate the size of the (asymptotic) bias and its dependence on the degree of truncation. We provide a Stata command file that maximizes the likelihood function that properly takes account of the interplay between truncation and dynamic selection. |
| Subjects: | | stata duration analysis left-truncation likelihood function dynamic selection hazard rate unobserved heterogeneity twin data |
| JEL: | | C41 C34 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110263752 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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