Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the reply, coxme() seems to be the one I need. 

Best,
Shige


On 9/8/05, Thomas Lumley <tlumley@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Shige Song wrote:
> 
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The "coxph" function in the "survival" package allows multiple frailty
> > terms.
> 
> Um, no, it doesn't.
> 
> > In all the examples I saw, however, the frailty terms are nested.
> > What will happen if I have non-nested (that is, cross-classified) 
> frailties
> > in the model?
> 
> This wouldn't work even if it did allow multiple frailty terms.
> 
> 
> You may want the coxme() function in the "kinship" package.
> 
> 
> -thomas
>

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