calculates the probability Pi(t) of being cured at a given time t after diagnosis knowing that he/she was alive up to time t. In other words, Pi(t)=(probability of being cured and alive up to time t given xi)/ (probability of being alive up to time t given xi)
Note that this function is for mixture cure model with Weibull distribution considered for uncured patients.
TTC_wei(z_pcured = z_pcured, z_ucured = z_ucured, theta, epsilon = 0.05)covariates matrix acting on cure proportion
covariates matrix acting on survival function of uncured
estimated parameters
value fixed by user to estimate the TTC \(\text{Pi}(t)\geq (1-\epsilon)\). By default \(\epsilon = 0.05\).
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