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  <dc:title>Parametric Survival Model Selection for Decision-Analytic Models</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package PERSUADE version 0.1.2</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Provides a standardized framework to support the selection
    and evaluation of parametric survival models for time-to-event data.
    Includes tools for visualizing survival data, checking proportional
    hazards assumptions (Grambsch and Therneau, 1994,
    &lt;doi:10.1093/biomet/81.3.515&gt;), comparing parametric (Ishak and
    colleagues, 2013, &lt;doi:10.1007/s40273-013-0064-3&gt;), spline (Royston
    and Parmar, 2002, &lt;doi:10.1002/sim.1203&gt;) and cure models, examining
    hazard functions, and evaluating model extrapolation. Methods are
    consistent with recommendations in the NICE Decision Support Unit
    Technical Support Documents (14 and 21
    &lt;https://sheffield.ac.uk/nice-dsu/tsds/survival-analysis&gt;). Results
    are structured to facilitate integration into decision-analytic
    models, and reports can be generated with 'rmarkdown'. The package
    builds on existing tools including 'flexsurv' (Jackson, 2016,
    &lt;doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i08&gt;)) and 'flexsurvcure' for estimating cure
    models.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: data.table, flexsurv, flexsurvcure, ggplot2, muhaz, rmarkdown,
rms, sft, stats, survival, survminer</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: kableExtra, knitr, testthat (&gt;= 3.1.2), utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Bram Ramaekers &lt;bram.ramaekers@mumc.nl&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Bram Ramaekers [aut, cre, ths] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5785-9228&gt;),
  Xavier Pouwels [ctb] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3563-0013&gt;),
  Sabine Grimm [ths] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2175-7999&gt;),
  Manuela Joore [ths] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5649-6768&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-10-09</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PERSUADE</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.PERSUADE</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
