Package: PERSUADE
Title: Parametric Survival Model Selection for Decision-Analytic Models
Version: 0.1.2
Authors@R: c(
    person("Bram", "Ramaekers", , "bram.ramaekers@mumc.nl", role = c("aut", "cre", "ths"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5785-9228")),
    person("Xavier", "Pouwels", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-3563-0013")),
    person("Sabine", "Grimm", role = "ths",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2175-7999")),
    person("Manuela", "Joore", role = "ths",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-5649-6768"))
  )
Description: Provides a standardized framework to support the selection
        and evaluation of parametric survival models for time-to-event
        data. Includes tools for visualizing survival data, checking
        proportional hazards assumptions (Grambsch and Therneau, 1994,
        <doi:10.1093/biomet/81.3.515>), comparing parametric (Ishak and
        colleagues, 2013, <doi:10.1007/s40273-013-0064-3>), spline
        (Royston and Parmar, 2002, <doi:10.1002/sim.1203>) and cure
        models, examining hazard functions, and evaluating model
        extrapolation. Methods are consistent with recommendations in
        the NICE Decision Support Unit Technical Support Documents (14
        and 21
        <https://sheffield.ac.uk/nice-dsu/tsds/survival-analysis>).
        Results are structured to facilitate integration into
        decision-analytic models, and reports can be generated with
        'rmarkdown'. The package builds on existing tools including
        'flexsurv' (Jackson, 2016, <doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i08>)) and
        'flexsurvcure' for estimating cure models.
License: GPL (>= 3)
URL: https://github.com/Bram-R/PERSUADE
BugReports: https://github.com/Bram-R/PERSUADE/issues
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: data.table, flexsurv, flexsurvcure, ggplot2, muhaz, rmarkdown,
        rms, sft, stats, survival, survminer
Suggests: kableExtra, knitr, testthat (>= 3.1.2), utils
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Config/pak/sysreqs: cmake libgmp3-dev make libicu-dev libjpeg-dev
        libpng-dev libuv1-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev
Repository: https://bram-r.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-11-02 16:31:58 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/bram-r/persuade
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 7be0e3668b7c5b6e2f05fef526147fcbd8f66667
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-11-02 21:52:24 UTC; root
Author: Bram Ramaekers [aut, cre, ths] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5785-9228>),
  Xavier Pouwels [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3563-0013>),
  Sabine Grimm [ths] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2175-7999>),
  Manuela Joore [ths] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5649-6768>)
Maintainer: Bram Ramaekers <bram.ramaekers@mumc.nl>