Fits time trend models for routine disease surveillance tasks and returns probability distributions for a variety of quantities of interest, including age-standardized rates, period and cumulative percent change, and measures of health inequality. The models are appropriate for count data such as disease incidence and mortality data, employing a Poisson or binomial likelihood and the first-difference (random-walk) prior for unknown risk. Optionally add a covariance matrix for multiple, correlated time series models. Inference is completed using Markov chain Monte Carlo via the Stan modeling language. References: Donegan, Hughes, and Lee (2022) <doi:10.2196/34589>; Stan Development Team (2021) <https://mc-stan.org>; Theil (1972, ISBN:0-444-10378-3).

Computing the one-sided/two-sided integrated/maximally selected EL statistics for simultaneous testing, the one-sided/two-sided EL tests for pointwise testing, and an initial test that precedes one-sided testing to exclude the possibility of crossings or alternative orderings among the survival functions.

Provides predictive accuracy tools to evaluate time-to-event survival models. This includes calculating the concordance probability estimate that incorporates the follow-up time for a particular study developed by Devlin, Gonen, Heller (2020)<doi:10.1007/s10985-020-09503-3>. It also evaluates the concordance probability estimate for nested Cox proportional hazards models using a projection-based approach by Heller and Devlin (under review).

Survival analysis models are commonly used in medicine and other areas. Many of them
    are too complex to be interpreted by human. Exploration and explanation is needed, but
    standard methods do not give a broad enough picture. 'survex' provides easy-to-apply
    methods for explaining survival models, both complex black-boxes and simpler statistical models.
    They include methods specific to survival analysis such as SurvSHAP(t) introduced in Krzyzinski et al., (2023)
    <doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2022.110234>, SurvLIME described in Kovalev et al., (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106164> as well as
    extensions of existing ones described in Biecek et al., (2021) <doi:10.1201/9780429027192>.