smcure: An R-Package for estimating semiparametric mixture cure models

C Cai, Y Zou, Y Peng, J Zhang - Computer methods and programs in …, 2012 - Elsevier
The mixture cure model is a special type of survival models and it assumes that the studied
population is a mixture of susceptible individuals who may experience the event of interest …

A SAS macro for parametric and semiparametric mixture cure models

F Corbiere, P Joly - Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 2007 - Elsevier
Cure models have been developed to analyze failure time data with a cured fraction. For
such data, standard survival models are usually not appropriate because they do not …

Two-component mixture cure rate model with spline estimated nonparametric components

L Wang, P Du, H Liang - Biometrics, 2012 - academic.oup.com
In some survival analysis of medical studies, there are often long-term survivors who can be
considered as permanently cured. The goals in these studies are to estimate the noncured …

A penalized likelihood approach for mixture cure models

F Corbiere, D Commenges, JMG Taylor… - Statistics in …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Cure models have been developed to analyze failure time data with a cured fraction. For
such data, standard survival models are usually not appropriate because they do not …

A new estimation method for the semiparametric accelerated failure time mixture cure model

J Zhang, Y Peng - Statistics in medicine, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The proportional hazard (PH) mixture cure model and the accelerated failure time (AFT)
mixture cure model are usually used in analysing failure time data with long‐term survivors …

Semiparametric efficient estimation for a class of generalized proportional odds cure models

M Mao, JL Wang - Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
We present a mixture cure model with the survival time of the “uncured” group coming from a
class of linear transformation models, which is an extension of the proportional odds model …

On the integration of decision trees with mixture cure model

W Aselisewine, S Pal - Statistics in Medicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The mixture cure model is widely used to analyze survival data in the presence of a cured
subgroup. Standard logistic regression‐based approaches to model the incidence may lead …

Assessing the fit of parametric cure models

EP Wileyto, Y Li, J Chen, DF Heitjan - Biostatistics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Survival data can contain an unknown fraction of subjects who are “cured” in the sense of
not being at risk of failure. We describe such data with cure-mixture models, which …

Mixture cure models for multivariate survival data

B Yu, Y Peng - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2008 - Elsevier
Mixture cure models (MCMs) have been widely used to analyze survival data with a cure
fraction. The MCMs postulate that a fraction of the patients are cured from the disease and …

Estimation in a Cox proportional hazards cure model

JP Sy, JMG Taylor - Biometrics, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Some failure time data come from a population that consists of some subjects who are
susceptible to and others who are nonsusceptible to the event of interest. The data typically …