Re: st: Cox model with Conditional Frailty AND Stratification

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Jana von Stein wrote:
> I am trying to specify a Cox model with Conditional Frailty (as in
> Box-Steffensmeier et al. 2007) along with stratification. Does anyone know
> how to do both?

The error message seems pretty clear: "option strata(varname) not
allowed for shared frailty models". This makes perfect sense if the
stratification variable and the id variable for shared frailty are the
same. That model would just not be identified as the stratification
would take care of all variance that the shared frailty might
otherwise pick up. If the stratification variable and id variable
differ, the model may be in theory identified, but I would not be
surprised if in practice most datasets just would not contain enough
information for it to converge.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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