Package: BSET
Type: Package
Title: A Bayesian Surrogate Evaluation Test
Version: 1.0
Date: 2026-05-15
Authors@R: c(
    person("Pietro", "Carlotti", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           email = "pietro.carlotti@utexas.edu"),
    person("Layla", "Parast", role = "aut",
           email = "parast@austin.utexas.edu"))
Description: An implementation of the Bayesian Surrogate Evaluation Test
    (BSET) for assessing the validity of surrogate markers in clinical
    trials. Provides hypothesis testing tools to evaluate whether a
    surrogate can reliably estimate the causal effect of a treatment on a
    primary outcome. Implements the imputation-based Bayesian methodology
    of Carlotti and Parast (2026) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2603.14381>,
    extending the frequentist rank-based approach of Parast et al. (2024)
    <doi:10.1093/biomtc/ujad035>. Addresses key limitations of the
    frequentist method, including the lack of causal interpretability and
    the inability to adjust for covariates in the estimation process.
License: GPL-3
URL: https://pietrocarlotti.github.io/BSET/,
        https://github.com/PietroCarlotti/BSET
BugReports: https://github.com/PietroCarlotti/BSET/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Imports: rstan, ggplot2, future, parallel, mvtnorm, dplyr,
        SurrogateRank, Rdpack, rlang
RdMacros: Rdpack
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, bookdown,
VignetteBuilder: knitr, bookdown
Depends: R (>= 3.5)
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-05-18 18:13:14 UTC; pc29642
Author: Pietro Carlotti [aut, cre],
  Layla Parast [aut]
Maintainer: Pietro Carlotti <pietro.carlotti@utexas.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-05-22 09:32:08 UTC
