The progressive illness-death model is frequently used in medical applications. For example, the model may be used to describe the disease process in cancer studies. We have developed a new R package called idmTPreg to estimate regression coefficients in datasets that can be described by the progressive illness-death model. The motivation for the development of the package is a recent contribution that enables the estimation of possibly time-varying covariate effects on the transition probabilities for a progressive illness-death data. The main feature of the package is that it befits both non-Markov and Markov progressive illness-death data. The package implements the introduced estimators obtained using a direct binomial regression approach. Also, variance estimates and confidence bands are implemented in the package. This article presents guidelines for the use of the package.
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idmTPreg, mstate, msm, p3state.msm, doParallel, foreach, survival
Survival, ClinicalTrials, Distributions, Econometrics, HighPerformanceComputing, SocialSciences
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Azarang & Fuente, "idmTPreg: Regression Model for Progressive Illness Death Data", The R Journal, 2019
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2018-081,
author = {Azarang, Leyla and Fuente, Manuel Oviedo de la},
title = {idmTPreg: Regression Model for Progressive Illness Death Data},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2019},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2018-081},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2018-081},
volume = {10},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {317-325}
}