NBvarsel: Variable Selection via Cross-Validated Net Benefit
Performs exhaustive or groupwise (backward elimination) variable selection for binary outcome prediction models using cross-validated Net Benefit as the optimization criterion. It supports predictor costs, restricted cubic splines, interaction terms, permutation importance, and parallel computation. It includes visualizations for model comparison and variable importance. References include Vickers AJ & Elkin EB (2006) <doi:10.1177/0272989X06295361>, Van Calster B et al. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2018.08.038>, Vickers AJ et al. (2019) <doi:10.1186/s41512-019-0064-7>, and Baker SG et al. (2012) <doi:10.1515/1557-4679.1395>.
| Version: | 0.1.1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | caret, DescTools, doParallel, dplyr, foreach, ggplot2, ggtext, parallel, patchwork, pROC, rlang, rms, scales, stats, stringr, tidyr |
| Suggests: | glmnet, ggsci, gt, knitr, quarto, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: | 2026-08-30 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.NBvarsel (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Lasai Barreñada 
[aut, cre] (Department of Development and Regeneration ; Leuven
Unit for Health Technology Assessment Research (LUHTAR), KU Leuven,
Belgium),
Laure Wynants
[aut] (Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven,
Belgium; Leuven Unit for Health Technology Assessment Research
(LUHTAR), KU Leuven, Belgium; Department of Epidemiology, CAPHRI
Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University,
Maastricht, Netherlands),
Ewout W. Steyerberg
[aut] (Julius
Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical
Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands),
Andrew Vickers
[aut] (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA),
Ben Van Calster
[aut] (Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven,
Belgium; Leuven Unit for Health Technology Assessment Research
(LUHTAR), KU Leuven, Belgium; Julius Centre for Health Sciences and
Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht,
Netherlands) |
| Maintainer: | Lasai Barreñada <lasai.barrenadataleb at kuleuven.be> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/LasaiBarrenada/NB_varsel/issues |
| License: | GPL (≥ 3) |
| URL: | https://lasaibarrenada.github.io/NB_varsel/, https://github.com/LasaiBarrenada/NB_varsel |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | NBvarsel results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | NBvarsel.html , NBvarsel.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Variable Selection via Net Benefit with NBvarsel (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | NBvarsel_0.1.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): NBvarsel_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available |
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