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curesurv (version 0.1.2)

predcall_wei: predcall_wei function

Description

calculates the predicted cure indicators from a mixture cure model with the survival of uncured specified by a Weibull distribution.

Usage

predcall_wei(
  object,
  pred,
  z_pcured = z_pcured,
  z_ucured = z_ucured,
  x = x,
  level = level,
  epsilon = epsilon,
  sign_delta = 1,
  cumLexctopred
)

Arguments

object

ouput from a model implemented using curesurv

pred

some predicted estimates

z_pcured

covariates matrix acting on cure proportion

z_ucured

covariates matrix acting on survival function of uncured

x

time at which the predictions are provided

level

(1-alpha/2)-order quantile of a normal distribution

epsilon

value fixed by user to estimate the TTC \(\text{Pi}(t)\geq (1-\epsilon)\). By default \(\epsilon = 0.05\).

sign_delta

only used for mixture cure rate models to specify if the effects or minus the effects of covariates acting on uncured survival to be considered. Default will be sign_delta = "1". The alternative is sign_delta = "-1".

cumLexctopred

pre prediction obtained by cumLexc_alphaweibull_topred

Author

Juste Goungounga, Judith Breaud, Olayide Boussari, Laura Botta, Valerie Jooste

References

Boussari O, Bordes L, Romain G, Colonna M, Bossard N, Remontet L, Jooste V. Modeling excess hazard with time-to-cure as a parameter. Biometrics. 2021 Dec;77(4):1289-1302. doi: 10.1111/biom.13361. Epub 2020 Sep 12. PMID: 32869288. (pubmed)

Boussari O, Romain G, Remontet L, Bossard N, Mounier M, Bouvier AM, Binquet C, Colonna M, Jooste V. A new approach to estimate time-to-cure from cancer registries data. Cancer Epidemiol. 2018 Apr;53:72-80. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2018.01.013. Epub 2018 Feb 4. PMID: 29414635. (pubmed)

Phillips N, Coldman A, McBride ML. Estimating cancer prevalence using mixture models for cancer survival. Stat Med. 2002 May 15;21(9):1257-70. doi: 10.1002/sim.1101. PMID: 12111877. (pubmed)

De Angelis R, Capocaccia R, Hakulinen T, Soderman B, Verdecchia A. Mixture models for cancer survival analysis: application to population-based data with covariates. Stat Med. 1999 Feb 28;18(4):441-54. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19990228)18:4<441::aid-sim23>3.0.co;2-m. PMID: 10070685. (pubmed)