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In a sample of censored survival times, the presence of an immune proportion of individuals who are not subject to death, failure or relapse, may be indicated by a relatively high number of individuals with large censored survival times. In this paper the generalized log-gamma model is modified for the possibility that long-term survivors may be present in the data. The model attempts to separately estimate the effects of covariates on the surviving fraction, that is, the proportion of the population for which the event never occurs. The logistic function is used for the regression model of the surviving fraction. Inference for the model parameters is considered via maximum likelihood. Some influence methods, such as the local influence and total local influence of an individual are derived, analyzed and discussed. Finally, a data set from the medical area is analyzed under the log-gamma generalized mixture model. A residual analysis is performed in order to select an appropriate model.
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The authors would like to thank the editor and referees for their helpful comments. This work was supported by CNPq, Brazil.
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Ortega, E.M.M., Rizzato, F.B. & Demétrio, C.G.B. The generalized log-gamma mixture model with covariates: local influence and residual analysis. Stat Methods Appl 18, 305–331 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-008-0104-x
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