Fits cure models in net survival setting. It can be a mixture cure model with the survival of the uncured following a Weibull or an exponentiated Weibull. The package also implements non-mixture cure models such as the time-to-null excess hazard model proposed by Boussari et al (2021). If the modelling assumption of the comparability between expected hazard in the cohort under study and that related to the general population doesn't hold, an extra effect (due to life tables mismatch) can be estimated for these two classes of cure models. The overall survival setting can also be considered in this package.
Juste Goungounga, Judith Breaud, Olayide Boussari, Laura Botta, Valerie Jooste
package: curesurv
type: Package Version 0.1.2
license: GPL 3 + LICENSE file
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