2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/130966In this work we present a simple estimation procedure for a general frailty model for analysis of prospective correlated failure times. Earlier work showed this method to perform well in a simulation study. Here we provide rigorous large-sample theory for the proposed estimators of both the regression coefficient vector and the dependence parameter, including consistent variance estimators.Statistics Theorytext