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  <dc:title>Flexible and Efficient Evaluation of Principal
Surrogates/Treatment Effect Modifiers</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package pssmooth version 1.0.3</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements estimation and testing procedures for evaluating an intermediate biomarker response as a principal surrogate of a clinical response to treatment (i.e., principal stratification effect modification analysis), as described in Juraska M, Huang Y, and Gilbert PB (2020), Inference on treatment effect modification by biomarker response in a three-phase sampling design, Biostatistics, 21(3): 545-560 &lt;doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxy074&gt;. The methods avoid the restrictive 'placebo structural risk' modeling assumption common to past methods and further improve robustness by the use of nonparametric kernel smoothing for biomarker density estimation. A randomized controlled two-group clinical efficacy trial is assumed with an ordered categorical or continuous univariate biomarker response measured at a fixed timepoint post-randomization and with a univariate baseline surrogate measure allowed to be observed in only a subset of trial participants with an observed biomarker response (see the flexible three-phase sampling design in the paper for details). Bootstrap-based procedures are available for pointwise and simultaneous confidence intervals and testing of four relevant hypotheses. Summary and plotting functions are provided for estimation results.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: graphics, stats, osDesign, np, chngpt, MASS</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Michal Juraska &lt;mjuraska@fredhutch.org&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Michal Juraska [aut, cre]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-2</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2020-11-18</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pssmooth</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.pssmooth</dc:identifier>
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