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  <dc:title>Alpha-Power Hazard Regression Models for Survival Data</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package AlphaPowerHazard version 0.1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements the alpha-power hazard model and regression
    frameworks for survival data based on the flexible hazard rate function
    h(x; alpha, beta) = alpha^x + x^(beta-1) (Pal et al., 2026
    &lt;doi:10.1007/s41096-026-00297-5&gt;). Provides standard distribution
    functions (d, p, q, r, h, H, s) and distributional properties including
    raw/central moments, variance, skewness, kurtosis, quantile statistics
    (Bowley's skewness, Moors's kurtosis), Lambert W hazard rate function
    minimum (Corless et al., 1996), order statistics, and stochastic ordering
    (Shaked &amp; Shanthikumar, 1994). Computes five classical estimation
    methods for baseline parameters: Maximum Likelihood Estimation (Casella &amp;
    Berger, 2002), Least Squares Estimation (Swain et al., 1988), Weighted
    Least Squares Estimation (Styan, 1973), Maximum Product of Spacings
    Estimation (Cheng &amp; Amin, 1983 &lt;doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1983.tb01241.x&gt;),
    and Cramer-von Mises Estimation (Macdonald, 1971). Supports four
    hazard regression models (M1-M4) within proportional hazards and
    parametric frameworks across uncensored data, right censoring, left
    censoring, interval censoring, and progressive Type-I and Type-II
    censoring schemes (Lee &amp; Wang, 2003; Lawless, 2011; Balakrishnan &amp;
    Aggarwala, 2000). Includes comprehensive model diagnostics, Cox-Snell,
    martingale, deviance, standardized, and studentized residuals, leverage,
    Cook's distance, DFFITS, DFBETAS, model comparisons (AIC, BIC, WAIC),
    k-fold cross-validation, prediction suites, random data generators, and
    an eight-panel diagnostic visualization suite.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: survival, maxLik, numDeriv, MASS, stats, graphics, grDevices,
utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Shikhar Tyagi &lt;shikhar1093tyagi@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Shikhar Tyagi [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1606-0844&gt;),
  Arvind Pandey [aut],
  Bhupendra Singh [aut],
  Vrijesh Tripathi [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-29</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=AlphaPowerHazard</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.AlphaPowerHazard</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en-US</dc:language>
</oai_dc:dc>
