This S-PLUS package implements the algorithm described in the article "Peng, Y. (2003), Fitting semiparametric cure models, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 41:481--490". This package was implemented with support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Memorial University of Newfoundland. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. If you use it for work that is published in any form, please acknowledge the author.
Please send any bugs to the author.
DOWNLOAD THE PACKAGE
The package semicure.zip can be downloaded from the author's personal web page.
Following the instructions in INSTALL file in the package to install and use the package.
FUNCTIONS IN THE PACKAGE
semicure: fit a semiparametric cure model
semicure.object: a fitted semiparametric cure model object
coef.semicure: retrieve the estimated coefficients from a semicure object
print.semicure: print a semicure object
summary.semicure: print summary information of a semicure object
predict.semicure: predictions from a fitted semicure object
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