EMGCR - Mixture Cure Rate Models with Flexible Link Functions via the EM
Algorithm
Fits mixture cure rate models by the
Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. The incidence
component (the probability of being uncured) accepts the logit,
probit, cauchit, power logit and reversed power logit link
functions, and the latency component accepts the exponential,
Rayleigh, Weibull, log-normal, log-logistic and inverse
Gaussian distributions. The package provides parameter
estimates with standard errors, simulation of data from the
model, and diagnostic tools based on residuals and simulated
envelopes. The methods build on Berkson and Gage (1952)
<doi:10.2307/2281318>, Dempster, Laird and Rubin (1977)
<doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1977.tb01600.x> and Bazán,
Torres-Avilés, Suzuki and Louzada (2017)
<doi:10.1002/asmb.2215>.