coxdev: Cox Model Deviance, Gradient, Information and Score Sampling

Fast computation of the deviance of the Cox proportional hazards model (Cox (1972) <doi:10.1111/j.2517-6161.1972.tb00899.x>), its gradient and the diagonal of its Hessian with respect to the linear predictor, the information and its derivative in a direction as matrix-free linear operators, and draws of the score (multinomial, Bernoulli, Fisher noncentral hypergeometric or wild), with the ties of Breslow (1974) <doi:10.2307/2529620> or Efron (1977) <doi:10.1080/01621459.1977.10480613>, start times (left truncation), strata and sample weights. The 'C++' code is header-only, shared with the 'Python' package 'coxdev', and installed for packages that use it through 'LinkingTo'.

Version: 0.4.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: R6, Rcpp, stats
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppEigen
Suggests: knitr, Matrix, rmarkdown, survival, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-11-07
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.coxdev (may not be active yet)
Author: Jonathan Taylor [aut, cre], Trevor Hastie [aut], Balasubramanian Narasimhan [aut]
Maintainer: Jonathan Taylor <jtaylo at stanford.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/jonathan-taylor/coxdev/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/jonathan-taylor/coxdev
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: coxdev results

Documentation:

Reference manual: coxdev.html , coxdev.pdf
Vignettes: Using coxdev (source, R code)
Sampling the score (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: coxdev_0.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: coxdev_0.4.0.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): coxdev_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): coxdev_0.4.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): coxdev_0.4.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): coxdev_0.4.0.tgz

Linking:

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