The joint modeling of longitudinal and time-to-event data has received much attention in the biostatistical literature in recent years. In this notebook (and talk), we describe the implementation of a shared parameter joint model for longitudinal and time-to-event data in Stan. The methods described in the notebook are a simplified version of those underpinning the stan_jm modeling function that has recently been contributed to the rstanarm R package.

Code and data available at github.com/stan-dev/stancon_talks