TreatmentSelection

This R package includes a suite of descriptive and inferential methods designed to evaluate one or more biomarkers for their ability to guide patient treatment recommendations. relevant functions are:

• trtsel_measures for evaluating the performance of a user-specified marker-based treatment rule
• trtsel for creating trtsel objects
• plot.trtsel for plotting risk curves and more
• evaluate.trtsel for evaluating marker performance
• calibrate.trtsel for assessing model calibration
• compare.trtsel to compare two trtsel objects.

To dowload the package from CRAN, type:

install.packages("TreatmentSelection")

To download and install the most recent version of the package directly from github, type:

if (!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("TreatmentSelection", "mdbrown")

A manuscript describing the methods employed in the package can be found here and a brief tutorial is available here.