survcompare: Compares Cox and Survival Random Forests to Quantify Nonlinearity

Performs repeated nested cross-validation for Cox Proportionate Hazards, Cox Lasso, Survival Random Forest, and their ensemble. Returns internally validated concordance index, time-dependent area under the curve, Brier score, calibration slope, and statistical testing of non-linear ensemble outperforming the baseline Cox model. In this, it helps researchers to quantify the gain of using a more complex survival model, or justify its redundancy. Equally, it shows the performance value of the non-linear and interaction terms, and may highlight the need of further feature transformation. Further details can be found in Shamsutdinova, Stamate, Roberts, & Stahl (2022) "Combining Cox Model and Tree-Based Algorithms to Boost Performance and Preserve Interpretability for Health Outcomes" <doi:10.1007/978-3-031-08337-2_15>, where the method is described as Ensemble 1.

Version:	0.1.2
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1), survival (≥ 3.0)
Imports:	stats, timeROC, caret, glmnet, randomForestSRC
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2024-01-22
Author:	Diana Shamsutdinova [aut, cre], Daniel Stahl [aut]
Maintainer:	Diana Shamsutdinova <diana.shamsutdinova.github at gmail.com>
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README
CRAN checks:	survcompare results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	survcompare.pdf
Vignettes:	survcompare_application

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Package source:	survcompare_0.1.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: survcompare_0.1.2.zip, r-release: survcompare_0.1.2.zip, r-oldrel: survcompare_0.1.2.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): survcompare_0.1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): survcompare_0.1.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): survcompare_0.1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): survcompare_0.1.2.tgz

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