Hi all, May i know does R has packages or code to run "Bayesian Relative Survival Analysis"? I have look through Bayesian Survival Analysis(2001) by Joseph George Ibrahim Ming-Hui Chen, Debajyoti Sinha , and would like to try out bayesian relative survival analysis in R.
>From the cran project website, i know that the package relsurv is for Relative >survival and the package splinesurv is for Nonparametric bayesian survival >analysis. (For your information, relative survival is the method of choice for estimating patient survival using data collected by population-based cancer registries although its utility is not restricted to studying cancer( Dickman and Adami 2006; Dickman et al. 2004).”, which is a concept defined by Berkson (1942) and Berkson & Gage (1950).Two data files are required in order to estimate relative survival; a file containing individual-level data on the patients and a file containing expected probabilities of survival for a comparable general population.) Both the paper, Spatial variation in prostate cancer survival in the Northern and Yorkshire region of England using Bayesian relative survival smoothing and A Bayesian geoadditive relative survival analysis of registry data on breast cancer mortality use Bayesian relative survival analysis. Hence, i was wondering if this is possible in R. Thanks a lot. Your Sincerely, Vincent He ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
