FedECA documentation

This package allows to perform both simulations and deployments of federated external control arms (FedECA) analyses.

Before using this code make sure to:

  1. read and accept the terms of the license license.md that can be found at the root of the repository.

  2. read substra’s privacy strategy

  3. read our associated technical article

  4. activate secure rng in Opacus if you plan on using differential privacy.

Citing this work

@misc{
      terrail2023fedeca,
      title={FedECA: A Federated External Control Arm Method for Causal Inference with Time-To-Event Data in Distributed Settings},
      author={Jean Ogier du Terrail and Quentin Klopfenstein and Honghao Li and Imke Mayer and Nicolas Loiseau and Mohammad Hallal and Félix Balazard and Mathieu Andreux},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2311.16984},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={stat.ME}
      }

License

FedECA is released under a custom license that can be found under license.md at the root of the repository.

Installation

Getting Started Instructions