R help - Apr 2005 - gcmrec -- new package for recurrent events

> Dear R-Users,
> 
> We would like to announce a new package called "gcmrec". This
package fits the parameters for the general semiparametric model for recurrent
events proposed by Peña and Hollander (2004). This class of models  incorporates
an effective age function which encodes the changes that occur after each event
occurrence such as the impact of an intervention, it allows for the modeling of
the impact of accumulating  event occurrences on the unit, it admits a link
function in which the effect of possibly  time-dependent covariates are
incorporated, and it allows the incorporation of unobservable  frailty
components which induce dependencies among the inter-event times for each unit.
> 
> Future versions will include functions for estimating this model using
Penalized approach.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Juan R Gonzalez
> Cancer Prevention and Control Unit
> Catalan Institute of Oncology, Barcelona (Spain)
> 
> 
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