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  <dc:title>Bayesian Cure Rate Modeling for Time-to-Event Data</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package bayesCureRateModel version 1.6</dc:title>
  <dc:description>A fully Bayesian approach in order to estimate a general family of cure rate models under the presence of covariates, see Papastamoulis and Milienos (2024) &lt;doi:10.1007/s11749-024-00942-w&gt; and Papastamoulis and Milienos (2024b) &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2409.10221&gt;. The promotion time can be modelled (a) parametrically using typical distributional assumptions for time to event data (including the Weibull, Exponential, Gompertz, log-Logistic distributions), or (b) semiparametrically using finite mixtures of distributions. In both cases, user-defined families of distributions are allowed under some specific requirements. Posterior inference is carried out by constructing a Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampler, which combines Gibbs sampling for the latent cure indicators and Metropolis-Hastings steps with Langevin diffusion dynamics for parameter updates. The main MCMC algorithm is embedded within a parallel tempering scheme by considering heated versions of the target posterior distribution.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.5.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: Rcpp (&gt;= 1.0.12), survival, doParallel, parallel, foreach,
mclust, coda, HDInterval, VGAM, calculus, flexsurv</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Panagiotis Papastamoulis &lt;papapast@yahoo.gr&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Panagiotis Papastamoulis [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9468-7613&gt;),
  Fotios Milienos [aut] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1423-7132&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-2</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-01-19</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=bayesCureRateModel</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.bayesCureRateModel</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
