cureAssess: Assessing Cure Model Appropriateness for Survival Data

Assesses whether cure models are appropriate for right-censored survival data, where a fraction of subjects may never experience the event of interest. Implements a two-stage workflow combining Kaplan-Meier visualization and comparison of parametric cure and non-cure models by the Akaike information criterion with formal diagnostics for sufficient follow-up and for the presence of a cured fraction. The diagnostics include the statistics of Maller and Zhou (1992) <doi:10.1093/biomet/79.4.731> and Maller and Zhou (1994) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1994.10476889>, the test of Shen (2000) <doi:10.1016/S0167-7152(00)00063-8>, and the ratio estimation of censored uncured subjects ('RECeUS') method of Selukar and Othus (2023) <doi:10.1002/sim.9610>.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	survival, flexsurv, flexsurvcure, survminer, ggplot2, dplyr, stats
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-09-14
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.cureAssess (may not be active yet)
Author:	Geethanjalee Mudunkotuwa [aut, cre, cph], Durbadal Ghosh [aut]
Maintainer:	Geethanjalee Mudunkotuwa <geethanjaleem at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/GeethanjaleeM/cureAssess/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/GeethanjaleeM/cureAssess
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-US
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	cureAssess results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	cureAssess.html , cureAssess.pdf
Vignettes:	Introduction to cureAssess (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	cureAssess_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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