SemiCompRisks: An R Package for the Analysis of Independent and Cluster-correlated Semi-competing Risks Data.

ABSTRACT: Semi-competing risks refer to the setting where primary scientific interest lies in estimation and inference with respect to a non-terminal event, the occurrence of which is subject to a terminal event. In this paper, we present the R package SemiCompRisks that provides functions to perform the analysis of independent/clustered semi-competing risks data under the illness-death multi-state model. The package allows the user to choose the specification for model components from a range of options giving users substantial flexibility, including: accelerated failure time or proportional hazards regression models; parametric or non-parametric specifications for baseline survival functions; parametric or non-parametric specifications for random effects distributions when the data are clus

SUBMITTER: Alvares D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7889044 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature