gcmrec: General Class of Models for Recurrent Event Data

Parameter estimation for the general class of semiparametric models for recurrent event data proposed by Peña and Hollander (2004, <ISBN:978-1-4020-7737-6>). The model incorporates an effective age function encoding the impact of interventions after each event occurrence, the effect of accumulating event occurrences, a link function for possibly time-dependent covariates, and optional gamma frailties to induce dependence among inter-event times. It also fits the extension for cancer relapses of González et al. (2005) <doi:10.1002/sim.2410>. Estimation is performed by profile likelihood, with an expectation-maximization algorithm for the frailty model, and the package provides descriptive, diagnostic and predictive tools for the fitted models.

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: Rcpp, survival, ggplot2, scales, rlang, stats, graphics, grDevices
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle
Published: 2026-09-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.gcmrec
Author: Dolors Pelegri-Siso ORCID iD [aut, cre], Juan R. González [aut], Elizabeth H. Slate [aut], Edsel A. Peña [aut]
Maintainer: Dolors Pelegri-Siso <dolors.pelegri at isglobal.org>
BugReports: https://github.com/isglobal-brge/gcmrec/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://github.com/isglobal-brge/gcmrec
NeedsCompilation: yes
Citation: gcmrec citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: gcmrec results

Documentation:

Reference manual: gcmrec.html , gcmrec.pdf
Vignettes: gcmrec: modelling recurrent events with effective age (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: gcmrec_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): gcmrec_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): gcmrec_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources: gcmrec archive

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