On multivariate Bayesian frailty models

Abstract

Defining the multivariate (mostly bi-variate) frailty models such as correlated gamma, correlated compound Poisson, correlated log normal frailty models through survival functions, we obtained the estimators of frailty parameters in this article. Further the estimation of Bayesian frailty parameters of multivariate normal and compound Poisson have been obtained for some priors with quadratic loss function.