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  <dc:title>Cox Models for Time-to-Event Data with Nonparametric Discrete
Group-Specific Frailties</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package discfrail version 0.2</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Functions for fitting Cox proportional hazards models for grouped time-to-event data, where the shared group-specific frailties have a discrete nonparametric distribution. The methods proposed in the package is described by Gasperoni, F., Ieva, F., Paganoni, A. M., Jackson, C. H., Sharples, L. (2018) &lt;doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxy071&gt;. There are also functions for simulating from these models, with a nonparametric or a parametric baseline hazard function.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 3.3.0), survival</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: graphics, Matrix, numDeriv, stats, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Francesca Gasperoni &lt;francesca.gasperoni@polimi.it&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Francesca Gasperoni [aut, cre],
  Christopher Jackson [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-3</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-06-18</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=discfrail</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.discfrail</dc:identifier>
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