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Decision Curve Analysis for Model Evaluation

v0.5.1 · Nov 14, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

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Diagnostic and prognostic models are typically evaluated with measures of accuracy that do not address clinical consequences. Decision-analytic techniques allow assessment of clinical outcomes, but often require collection of additional information may be cumbersome to apply to models that yield a continuous result. Decision curve analysis is a method for evaluating and comparing prediction models that incorporates clinical consequences, requires only the data set on which the models are tested, and can be applied to models that have either continuous or dichotomous results. See the following references for details on the methods: Vickers (2006) <doi:10.1177/0272989X06295361>, Vickers (2008) <doi:10.1186/1472-6947-8-53>, and Pfeiffer (2020) <doi:10.1002/bimj.201800240>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies broom dplyr ggplot2 glue purrr rlang scales (>= 1.1.1) survival tibble pminternal clinpubr dcurves

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new 0.5.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.5.1 ← 0.5.0 diff Nov 14, 2025
updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.0 diff Jul 23, 2024
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Dec 22, 2022
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.0 diff May 25, 2022
new 0.2.0 Jul 19, 2021