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library(devtools)
install_github("tagteam/riskRegression")

References

The following references provide the methodological framework for the features of riskRegression.

  1. T.A. Gerds and M.W. Kattan (2021). Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning (1st ed.) Chapman and Hall/CRC https://doi.org/10.1201/9781138384484

  2. T.A. Gerds and M. Schumacher. Consistent estimation of the expected Brier score in general survival models with right-censored event times. Biometrical Journal, 48(6):1029--1040, 2006.

  3. T.A. Gerds and M. Schumacher. Efron-type measures of prediction error for survival analysis. Biometrics, 63(4):1283--1287, 2007.

  4. T.A. Gerds, T. Cai, and M. Schumacher. The performance of risk prediction models. Biometrical Journal, 50(4):457--479, 2008.

  5. U B Mogensen, H. Ishwaran, and T A Gerds. Evaluating random forests for survival analysis using prediction error curves. Journal of Statistical Software, 50(11), 2012.

  6. P. Blanche, J-F Dartigues, and H. Jacqmin-Gadda. Estimating and comparing time-dependent areas under receiver operating characteristic curves for censored event times with competing risks. Statistics in Medicine, 32(30): 5381--5397, 2013.

  7. Paul Blanche, Ce'cile Proust-Lima, Lucie Loube`re, Claudine Berr, Jean- Franc,ois Dartigues, and He'le`ne Jacqmin-Gadda. Quantifying and comparing dynamic predictive accuracy of joint models for longitudinal marker and time-to-event in presence of censoring and competing risks. Biometrics, 71 (1):102--113, 2015.

Functions predict.CauseSpecificCox{.verbatim}, predictCox{.verbatim} and iidCox{.verbatim}:

  • Brice Ozenne, Anne Lyngholm Sorensen, Thomas Scheike, Christian Torp-Pedersen and Thomas Alexander Gerds. riskRegression: Predicting the Risk of an Event using Cox Regression Models. The R Journal (2017) 9:2, pages 440-460.
@article{gerds2006consistent,
  title =    {Consistent Estimation of the Expected {B}rier Score
                  in General Survival Models with Right-Censored Event
                  Times},
  author =   {Gerds, T.A. and Schumacher, M.},
  journal =  {Biometrical Journal},
  volume =   48,
  number =   6,
  pages =    {1029--1040},
  year =     2006,
  publisher =    {Wiley Online Library}
}

@article{gerds2007efron,
  title =    {Efron-Type Measures of Prediction Error for Survival
                  Analysis},
  author =   {Gerds, T.A. and Schumacher, M.},
  journal =  {Biometrics},
  volume =   63,
  number =   4,
  pages =    {1283--1287},
  year =     2007,
  publisher =    {Wiley Online Library}
}

@article{gerds2008performance,
  title =    {The performance of risk prediction models},
  author =   {Gerds, T.A. and Cai, T. and Schumacher, M.},
  journal =  {Biometrical Journal},
  volume =   50,
  number =   4,
  pages =    {457--479},
  year =     2008,
  publisher =    {Wiley Online Library}
}

@Article{mogensen2012pec,
  title =    {Evaluating random forests for survival analysis
                  using prediction error curves},
  author =   {Mogensen, U B and Ishwaran, H. and Gerds, T A},
  journal =  {Journal of Statistical Software},
  year =     2012,
  volume =   50,
  number =   11
}

@article{Blanche2013statmed,
  title =    "{Estimating and comparing time-dependent areas under
                  receiver operating characteristic curves for
                  censored event times with competing risks}",
  author =   {Blanche, P. and Dartigues, J-F and Jacqmin-Gadda,
                  H.},
  journal =  {Statistics in Medicine},
  volume =   32,
  number =   30,
  pages =    {5381--5397},
  year =     2013
}

@article{blanche2015,
  title =    {Quantifying and comparing dynamic predictive
                  accuracy of joint models for longitudinal marker and
                  time-to-event in presence of censoring and competing
                  risks},
  author =   {Blanche, Paul and Proust-Lima, C{\'e}cile and
                  Loub{\`e}re, Lucie and Berr, Claudine and Dartigues,
                  Jean-Fran{\c{c}}ois and Jacqmin-Gadda,
                  H{\'e}l{\`e}ne},
  journal =  {Biometrics},
  volume =   71,
  number =   1,
  pages =    {102--113},
  year =     2015,
  publisher =    {Wiley Online Library}
}

@article{ozenne2017,
  title =    {riskRegression: Predicting the Risk of an Event
                using Cox Regression Modelss},
  author =   {Ozenne, Brice and Sørensen, Anne Lyngholm 
                and Scheike, Thomas and Torp-Pedersen, Christian
                and Gerds, Thomas Alexander},
  journal =  {The R Journal},
  volume =   9,
  number =   2,
  pages =    {440--460},
  year =     2017
}

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Functions in riskRegression (2023.03.22)

IPA

Explained variation for settings with binary, survival and competing risk outcome
Cforest

S3-wrapper function for cforest from the party package
Paquid

Paquid sample
Ctree

S3-Wrapper for ctree.
GLMnet

Fitting GLMnet for use with predictRisk
Hal9001

Fitting HAL for use with predictRisk
Score

Score risk predictions
CSC

Cause-specific Cox proportional hazard regression
Melanoma

Malignant melanoma data
FGR

Formula wrapper for crr from cmprsk
anova.ate

Risk Comparison Over Time
as.data.table.influenceTest

Turn influenceTest Object Into a data.table
as.data.table.ate

Turn ate Object Into a data.table
SuperPredictor

Formula interface for SuperLearner::SuperLearner
SmcFcs

SmcFcs
SurvResponseVar

Extract the time and event variable from a Cox model
autoplot.Score

ggplot AUC curve
ate

Average Treatment Effects Computation
autoplot.predictCox

Plot Predictions From a Cox Model
coef.CauseSpecificCox

Extract coefficients from a Cause-Specific Cox regression model
coef.riskRegression

Extract coefficients from riskRegression model
baseHaz_cpp

C++ Fast Baseline Hazard Estimation
as.data.table.predictCox

Turn predictCox Object Into a data.table
coxBaseEstimator

Extract the type of estimator for the baseline hazard
boot2pvalue

Compute the p.value from the distribution under H1
as.data.table.predictCSC

Turn predictCSC Object Into a data.table
confint.predictCSC

Confidence Intervals and Confidence Bands for the Predicted Absolute Risk (Cumulative Incidence Function)
boxplot.Score

Boxplot risk quantiles
confint.ate

Confidence Intervals and Confidence Bands for the Predicted Absolute Risk (Cumulative Incidence Function)
calcSeCSC

Standard error of the absolute risk predicted from cause-specific Cox models
confint.influenceTest

Confidence Intervals and Confidence Bands for the Difference Between Two Estimates
calcSeCox

Computation of standard errors for predictions
coxCenter

Extract the mean value of the covariates
confint.predictCox

Confidence Intervals and Confidence Bands for the predicted Survival/Cumulative Hazard
autoplot.ate

Plot Average Risks
autoplot.predictCSC

Plot Predictions From a Cause-specific Cox Proportional Hazard Regression
coxModelFrame

Extract the design matrix used to train a Cox model
colCenter_cpp

Apply - by column
colCumSum

Apply cumsum in each column
coxN

Extract the number of observations from a Cox model
colMultiply_cpp

Apply * by column
coxLP

Compute the linear predictor of a Cox model
coxFormula

Extract the formula from a Cox model
colScale_cpp

Apply / by column
ipcw

Estimation of censoring probabilities
information.wglm

Information for IPCW Logistic Regressions
coxSpecial

Special characters in Cox model
iidCox

Extract iid decomposition from a Cox model
influenceTest

Influence test [Experimental!!]
plot.riskRegression

Plotting predicted risk
penalizedS3

S3-wrapper for S4 function penalized
coxStrata

Define the strata for a new dataset
coxVarCov

Extract the variance covariance matrix of the beta from a Cox model
coxStrataLevel

Returns the name of the strata in Cox model
model.matrix.cph

Extract design matrix for cph objects
model.matrix.phreg

Extract design matrix for phreg objects
coxVariableName

Extract variable names from a model
plotBrier

Plot Brier curve
plotCalibration

Plot Calibration curve
plotAUC

Plot of time-dependent AUC curves
getSplitMethod

Input for data splitting algorithms
discreteRoot

Dichotomic search for monotone function
plotEffects

Plotting time-varying effects from a risk regression model.
predict.FGR

Predict subject specific risks (cumulative incidence) based on Fine-Gray regression model
iid.wglm

IID for IPCW Logistic Regressions
plotROC

Plot ROC curves
predict.riskRegression

Predict individual risk.
plotRisk

plot predicted risks
plotPredictRisk

Plotting predicted risks curves.
predict.CauseSpecificCox

Predicting Absolute Risk from Cause-Specific Cox Models
predictRisk

Extrating predicting risks from regression models
print.Score

Print Score object
print.ate

Print Average Treatment Effects
print.FGR

Print of a Fine-Gray regression model
predictCox

Fast computation of survival probabilities, hazards and cumulative hazards from Cox regression models
rowMultiply_cpp

Apply * by row
print.predictCSC

Print Predictions From a Cause-specific Cox Proportional Hazard Regression
print.influenceTest

Output of the DIfference Between Two Estimates
print.predictCox

Print Predictions From a Cox Model
print.IPA

Print IPA object
rowCumSum

Apply cumsum in each row
print.riskRegression

Print function for riskRegression models
simMelanoma

Simulate data alike the Melanoma data
sampleData

Simulate data with binary or time-to-event outcome
riskRegression

Risk Regression Fits a regression model for the risk of an event -- allowing for competing risks.
rowCenter_cpp

Apply - by row
selectJump

Evaluate the influence function at selected times
rowPaste

Collapse Rows of Characters.
riskLevelPlot

Level plots for risk prediction models
rowScale_cpp

Apply / by row
rowSumsCrossprod

Apply crossprod and rowSums
print.CauseSpecificCox

Print of a Cause-Specific Cox regression model
riskRegression.options

Global options for riskRegression
print.subjectWeights

Print subject weights
simPBC

simulating data alike the pbc data
predictCoxPL

Computation of survival probabilities from Cox regression models using the product limit estimator.
score.wglm

Score for IPCW Logistic Regressions
simsynth

Simulating from a synthesized object
selectCox

Backward variable selection in the Cox regression model
summary.FGR

Summary of a Fine-Gray regression model
summary.ate

Summary Average Treatment Effects
splitStrataVar

Reconstruct each of the strata variables
summary.Score

Summary of prediction performance metrics
summary.riskRegression

Summary of a risk regression model
wglm

Logistic Regression Using IPCW
transformCIBP

Compute Confidence Intervals/Bands and P-values After a Transformation
reconstructData

Reconstruct the original dataset
synthesize

Cooking and synthesizing survival data
terms.phreg

Extract terms for phreg objects
simActiveSurveillance

Simulate data of a hypothetical active surveillance prostate cancer study
subsetIndex

Extract Specific Elements From An Object
subjectWeights

Estimation of censoring probabilities at subject specific times