Cai C, Zou Y, Peng Y, Zhang J. smcure: an R-package for estimating
semiparametric mixture cure models.
COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2012;
108:1255-60. [PMID:
23017250 PMCID:
PMC3494798 DOI:
10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.08.013]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2012] [Revised: 07/27/2012] [Accepted: 08/15/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
The mixture cure model is a special type of survival models and it assumes that the studied population is a mixture of susceptible individuals who may experience the event of interest, and cure/non-susceptible individuals who will never experience the event. For such data, standard survival models are usually not appropriate because they do not account for the possibility of cure. This paper presents an R package smcure to fit the semiparametric proportional hazards mixture cure model and the accelerated failure time mixture cure model.
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