Scikit Survival
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This skill provides a structured approach to survival analysis using the scikit-survival 0.28.0 library. It covers the end-to-end lifecycle of survival modeling, including data preparation with structured outcomes, leakage-safe preprocessing pipelines, model selection (Cox, ensemble, and SVM-based), and rigorous evaluation using censoring-aware metrics. The skill emphasizes correct statistical practices, such as handling competing risks via cumulative incidence functions and ensuring proper cross-validation to avoid data leakage.
What it does
- Constructs survival outcomes from event and time data.
- Implements leakage-safe pipelines with scikit-learn preprocessing.
- Supports Cox proportional hazards, Coxnet, survival forests, and SVM models.
- Calculates censoring-aware metrics like concordance index and Brier score.
- Analyzes competing risks using nonparametric cumulative incidence functions.
- Provides CLI tools for validating data, training models, and generating reports.
When to use it
- When modeling time-to-event data with right-censoring.
- When performing survival analysis in a machine learning pipeline.
- When comparing cause-specific cumulative incidence in competing-risk scenarios.
- When needing to evaluate survival model performance using time-dependent metrics.
Advantages
- Ensures statistical rigor by enforcing split-before-preprocess workflows.
- Integrates seamlessly with the scikit-learn ecosystem.
- Provides robust handling of censoring in both model training and metric evaluation.
- Includes repair logic for known limitations in competing-risk confidence intervals.
- Offers deterministic local CLI tools for reproducible survival analysis.
Usage examples
- “How do I create a survival outcome object for my dataset?”
- Use the sksurv.util.Surv class to convert event and time arrays into a structured array, ensuring the event field is boolean and the time field is floating-point.
- “How can I evaluate a survival model using the Brier score?”
- Use the brier_score function from sksurv.metrics, passing the training and test outcomes, the predicted survival probabilities as an (n_test, n_times) array, and the evaluation time grid.
Install
Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/k-dense-ai/scikit-survival/downloadUnzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:
mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip scikit-survival.zip -d .agents/skills
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scikit-survival
Scope
Use this skill for scikit-survival 0.28.0 workflows involving:
right-censored structured outcomes;
Cox PH, Coxnet, IPC ridge, survival trees, forests, boosting, and SVMs;
discrimination, prediction error, calibration-oriented checks, and time-dependent prediction;
nonparametric cumulative incidence with competing risks;
scikit-learn pipelines, nested model selection, and reproducible reports.
scikit-survival primarily models right-censored outcomes. Its built-in competing-risk support is nonparametric cumulative incidence; it does not provide Fine-Gray regression. Do not present model output as clinical advice, causal evidence, or proof of clinical utility.
Python snippets using study-defined variables such as X_train, y_train,
frame, or times are illustrative integration templates. The native regression
tests and local CLI smoke runs use small synthetic fixtures; they do not validate
an unprovided study, clinical dataset, or every optional dataframe backend.
Current release and installation
Verified 2026-10-01:
Latest stable: scikit-survival 0.28.0, released 2026-07-05.
Python: 3.11 or later; PyPI wheels cover CPython 3.11-3.14 on Linux x86-64, macOS x86-64/ARM64, and Windows x86-64.
Runtime bounds: NumPy >=2.0.0, pandas >=2.2.0, SciPy >=1.13.0, scikit-learn >=1.9.0,<1.10, OSQP >=1.0.2, narwhals >=2.0.1.
0.28 adds pandas/Polars estimator support through narwhals and removes
criterionfromGradientBoostingSurvivalAnalysis.
The native refresh tests used Python 3.13 and the following snapshot (NumPy 2.5.1 was cached; this is a tested snapshot, not a claim that every pin is newest). Create an isolated environment:
uv venv .venv-survival --python 3.13
source .venv-survival/bin/activate
uv pip install \
"scikit-survival==0.28.0" \
"scikit-learn==1.9.1" \
"numpy==2.5.1" \
"pandas==3.0.6" \
"scipy==1.18.1" \
"ecos==2.0.14" \
"osqp==1.1.3" \
"joblib==1.6.0" \
"numexpr==2.14.2" \
"narwhals==2.26.0"Binary wheels are preferred. A source build requires a C/C++ compiler; OSQP may also require CMake. This skill is MIT-licensed; the upstream scikit-survival package is GPL-3.0-or-later, so review upstream licensing before redistribution.
Non-negotiable workflow
Define the estimand and event coding. Decide whether the target is all-event survival, cause-specific hazard, or cause-specific cumulative incidence.
Validate outcomes. Standard estimators need a two-field structured array: boolean event first, observed time second. Competing-risk CIF instead needs a separate integer event vector: 0=censored, 1..K=causes.
Split before learned preprocessing. Never fit imputers, encoders, scalers, feature selectors, or alpha choices on all rows before splitting.
Fit preprocessing inside a pipeline. Unknown categories and missingness must be handled using training-fold state only.
Tune without reusing evaluation data. Use nested CV when reporting cross-validated tuned performance, or reserve a truly untouched final holdout.
Fit censoring distributions on training data. IPCW concordance, dynamic AUC, and Brier metrics receive
survival_train, never a pooled train+test outcome.Restrict evaluation times. Use a strictly increasing grid inside test follow-up and below the end of training support where the estimated censoring survival remains positive.
Match predictions to metrics. Concordance/dynamic AUC consume higher-is-riskier scores. Brier metrics consume survival probabilities with shape
(n_test, n_times), not risk scores or unevaluated step functions.Handle competing causes explicitly. Standard survival probabilities and CIFs answer different questions. Never estimate event-specific probability with
1 - Kaplan-Meierwhile censoring competing events.Report limits. Separate discrimination, calibration, prediction error, and cumulative incidence. None alone establishes decision or clinical utility.
Outcome construction
from sksurv.util import Surv
y = Surv.from_arrays(event=event_bool, time=observed_time)
# Equivalent for pandas or Polars:
y = Surv.from_dataframe("event", "time", frame)The first field is boolean (True=event, False=right-censored); the second is
floating-point time. Field names may vary, but field order and meaning may not.
Use references/data-handling.md before loading custom or competing-risk data.
Leakage-safe pipeline
from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer
from sklearn.impute import SimpleImputer
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.pipeline import make_pipeline
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder, StandardScaler
from sksurv.linear_model import CoxPHSurvivalAnalysis
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
X, y, test_size=0.25, stratify=y["event"], random_state=20260723
)
preprocess = ColumnTransformer(
[
("num", make_pipeline(SimpleImputer(strategy="median"), StandardScaler()), numeric),
(
"cat",
make_pipeline(
SimpleImputer(strategy="most_frequent"),
OneHotEncoder(handle_unknown="ignore", drop="first", sparse_output=False),
),
categorical,
),
],
sparse_threshold=0.0,
)
model = make_pipeline(preprocess, CoxPHSurvivalAnalysis(alpha=0.1, ties="efron"))
model.fit(X_train, y_train)
risk = model.predict(X_test)The split precedes every learned transformation. For repeated or grouped records, use a group-aware split; for temporal deployment, use a time-respecting split.
Model choice
CoxPHSurvivalAnalysis: interpretable log-hazard coefficients under proportional hazards;alphais ridge shrinkage andtiesis"breslow"or"efron".CoxnetSurvivalAnalysis: LASSO/elastic-net path for high-dimensional data.l1_ratiois in(0, 1]; usefit_baseline_model=Truebefore requesting survival or cumulative-hazard functions.IPCRidge: IPC-weighted ridge AFT model;predict()returns original-time values (the fitted objective uses log time), not a Cox risk score.RandomSurvivalForest/ExtraSurvivalTrees: nonlinear survival and cumulative hazard predictions; use permutation importance, not impurity importance.GradientBoostingSurvivalAnalysis: tree boosting with"coxph","squared", or"ipcwls"loss.criterionwas removed in 0.28. Theipcwlsimplementation has log-time validation and missing gradient-weight defects; read the ensemble reference before relying on it.ComponentwiseGradientBoostingSurvivalAnalysis: sparse linear componentwise boosting.FastSurvivalSVM/FastKernelSurvivalSVM: ranking or regression objectives. Onlyrank_ratio=1directly returns higher-is-riskier scores; SVMs do not yield survival probabilities for Brier metrics.
Read the model-specific reference before interpreting coefficients or predictions:
references/cox-models.md, references/ensemble-models.md, or
references/svm-models.md.
Prediction and metric contracts
import numpy as np
from sksurv.metrics import (
brier_score,
concordance_index_ipcw,
cumulative_dynamic_auc,
integrated_brier_score,
)
risk = model.predict(X_test) # (n_test,), higher means higher event risk
uno_c = concordance_index_ipcw(y_train, y_test, risk, tau=times[-1])[0]
auc_t, mean_auc = cumulative_dynamic_auc(y_train, y_test, risk, times)
surv_fns = model.predict_survival_function(X_test)
surv_prob = np.vstack([fn(times) for fn in surv_fns]) # (n_test, n_times)
_, brier_t = brier_score(y_train, y_test, surv_prob, times)
ibs = integrated_brier_score(y_train, y_test, surv_prob, times)Harrell C and Uno C measure rank discrimination, not calibration.
Cumulative/dynamic AUC measures discrimination at selected horizons and accepts 1D or time-dependent 2D risk scores. Do not rely on a runtime rejection to catch survival probabilities: they are numeric arrays too, but their ranking runs in the opposite direction. Verify that higher input values mean greater event risk before interpreting AUC.
Brier score is censoring-weighted probability error and reflects both discrimination and calibration. It is not a standalone calibration curve.
Calibration requires horizon-specific predicted-versus-observed checks on independent data. scikit-survival 0.28 has no dedicated calibration-curve API.
The evaluator applies a conservative common-support rule for the combined metrics; AUC also needs observed cases and controls at every horizon. Prediction export checks this contract and fails clearly on an unsupported holdout.
See references/evaluation-metrics.md for assumptions, primary literature, safe
time-grid construction, and scorer wrappers.
Pipelines, metadata routing, and tuning
Ordinary Pipeline.fit(X, y) needs no metadata-routing setup. Metric wrappers such
as as_concordance_index_ipcw_scorer are estimator wrappers, not scoring=
callables:
from sklearn.model_selection import GridSearchCV
from sksurv.metrics import as_concordance_index_ipcw_scorer
wrapped = as_concordance_index_ipcw_scorer(model, tau=tau)
search = GridSearchCV(
wrapped,
{"estimator__coxphsurvivalanalysis__alpha": [0.01, 0.1, 1.0]},
cv=inner_splits,
)The wrapper learns the censoring distribution from each fit fold. Prefix wrapped
parameters with estimator__. Enable scikit-learn metadata routing only when
passing extra metadata through a meta-estimator. For example, Coxnet's
set_predict_request(alpha=True) matters only when routing the alpha prediction
argument with sklearn.set_config(enable_metadata_routing=True).
Use an outer CV loop for an unbiased CV performance estimate after inner tuning. Do not select parameters and report performance from the same folds as if external.
Competing risks
from sksurv.nonparametric import cumulative_incidence_competing_risks
# status: integer array, 0=censored, 1..K=mutually exclusive causes
time, cif = cumulative_incidence_competing_risks(status, observed_time)
total_cif = cif[0]
cause_1_cif = cif[1]cif has shape (K + 1, n_times); row 0 is total risk and rows 1..K are
cause-specific cumulative incidence. In 0.28.0 the raw total-risk confidence
interval is reversed and ignores conf_level; the bundled helper repairs it using
Kaplan–Meier. Conditional time_min that removes times is guarded because of an
upstream shape defect. See the competing-risk reference before requesting intervals.
Cause-specific Cox models treat other causes
as censored to estimate cause-specific hazards, but one such model's
1 - survival is not the cause-specific CIF. See references/competing-risks.md.
Bundled local CLIs
All helpers use deterministic synthetic data when no input is given; the report-only example contains illustrative metric values, not results from a model fit. They make no network calls, reject URLs and symlinks, bound files/rows/features, avoid unsafe pickle loading, and lazily import scientific packages.
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/validate_survival_csv.py --help
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/train_survival_model.py --help
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/evaluate_survival_metrics.py --help
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/competing_risk_cif.py --help
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/model_report.py --helpTypical local flow:
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/validate_survival_csv.py \
--input data.csv --event-column event --time-column time \
--feature-columns age,group,measurement --structured-output outcome.npy
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/train_survival_model.py \
--input data.csv --event-column event --time-column time \
--numeric-columns age,measurement --categorical-columns group \
--model coxph --tune --prediction-output predictions.npz \
--output training-summary.json
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/evaluate_survival_metrics.py \
--input predictions.npz --output metrics-summary.json
python skills/scikit-survival/scripts/model_report.py \
--training-summary training-summary.json \
--metrics-summary metrics-summary.json --output model-report.mdThe report helper summarizes the two supplied JSON files; it cannot establish that they describe the same fitted model and held-out cohort. Verify that provenance before combining summaries. It emits Markdown text, not plots or CIF results.
Use only de-identified, authorized local data. The bundled tests contain synthetic records only and no patient data or PHI.
Security triage
SECURITY.md previously claimed this skill bundled package-shadowing files named
sklearn.py and sksurv.py. The earlier 2026-07-23 inventory confirmed those files did
not exist; the claim was a phantom analyzer finding. This refresh adds only
descriptively named helpers and no shadow modules, environment reads, or network
calls.
Never name a project script after an imported package (including sklearn.py,
sksurv.py, numpy.py, or pandas.py), because Python may import the local file
instead of the installed library. Inspect the working directory before executing
examples copied from untrusted sources.
Reference files
references/data-handling.md— structured arrays, datasets, schema validation, pandas/Polars preprocessing, and leakage-safe splitting.references/cox-models.md— Cox PH, Coxnet, IPCRidge, assumptions, and tuning.references/ensemble-models.md— forests, trees, boosting, predictions, and permutation importance.references/svm-models.md— SVM objectives, prediction direction, scaling, kernels, and limitations.references/evaluation-metrics.md— metric inputs, censoring assumptions, time grids, calibration, nested CV, and primary literature.references/competing-risks.md— integer event coding, CIF API, built-in datasets, cause-specific hazards, and unsupported Fine-Gray regression.
Dated sources
Official API and compatibility sources, checked 2026-10-01. Released v0.28.0 source and native execution take precedence over stale cached API pages:
PyPI 0.28.0 — released 2026-07-05.
GitHub v0.28.0 release — published 2026-07-05.
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available, fetch https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00065 (or
http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?id_list=2609.00065) before writing the reference and take
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or publisher DOI, cite the published version instead.
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scripts/_common.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Shared, standard-library-first helpers for the bundled survival CLIs."""
from __future__ import annotations
import csv
import io
import json
import math
import os
import stat
import tempfile
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Iterable
MAX_INPUT_BYTES = 32 * 1024 * 1024
MAX_REPORT_BYTES = 4 * 1024 * 1024
MAX_ROWS = 20_000
MAX_FEATURES = 256
MAX_TIME_POINTS = 512
DEFAULT_SEED = 20_260_723
PINNED_INSTALL = (
'uv pip install "scikit-survival==0.28.0" "scikit-learn==1.9.1" '
'"numpy==2.5.1" "pandas==3.0.6" "scipy==1.18.1"'
)
class CliError(ValueError):
"""An expected command-line validation error."""
def bounded_int(minimum: int, maximum: int):
"""Return an argparse converter for a bounded integer."""
def convert(value: str) -> int:
try:
parsed = int(value)
except ValueError as exc:
raise CliError(f"expected an integer, got {value!r}") from exc
if not minimum <= parsed <= maximum:
raise CliError(
f"expected an integer from {minimum} through {maximum}, got {parsed}"
)
return parsed
return convert
def finite_float(value: str) -> float:
"""Parse a finite floating-point value."""
try:
parsed = float(value)
except ValueError as exc:
raise CliError(f"expected a number, got {value!r}") from exc
if not math.isfinite(parsed):
raise CliError("value must be finite")
return parsed
def positive_float(value: str) -> float:
"""Parse a finite positive floating-point value."""
parsed = finite_float(value)
if parsed <= 0:
raise CliError("value must be greater than zero")
return parsed
def probability(value: str) -> float:
"""Parse a probability strictly between zero and one."""
parsed = finite_float(value)
if not 0 < parsed < 1:
raise CliError("value must be strictly between zero and one")
return parsed
def parse_names(value: str | None) -> list[str]:
"""Parse a comma-separated list of unique, non-empty column names."""
if value is None:
return []
names = [item.strip() for item in value.split(",")]
if not names or any(not item for item in names):
raise CliError("column lists must contain non-empty comma-separated names")
if len(names) != len(set(names)):
raise CliError("column lists must not contain duplicates")
if len(names) > MAX_FEATURES:
raise CliError(f"at most {MAX_FEATURES} columns are allowed")
return names
def parse_floats(value: str | None) -> list[float]:
"""Parse a comma-separated list of finite floating-point values."""
if value is None:
return []
items = [item.strip() for item in value.split(",")]
if not items or any(not item for item in items):
raise CliError("expected non-empty comma-separated numbers")
values = [finite_float(item) for item in items]
if len(values) > MAX_TIME_POINTS:
raise CliError(f"at most {MAX_TIME_POINTS} values are allowed")
return values
def checked_input_file(
value: str | os.PathLike[str],
*,
suffixes: Iterable[str],
max_bytes: int = MAX_INPUT_BYTES,
) -> Path:
"""Return a bounded regular local file, rejecting URLs and symlinks."""
raw = os.fspath(value)
if "://" in raw:
raise CliError("network URLs are not accepted; provide a local file")
path = Path(raw).expanduser()
if path.is_symlink():
raise CliError(f"input must not be a symlink: {path}")
try:
info = path.stat()
except OSError as exc:
raise CliError(f"cannot access input file {path}: {exc}") from exc
if not stat.S_ISREG(info.st_mode):
raise CliError(f"input is not a regular file: {path}")
if info.st_size > max_bytes:
raise CliError(f"input is {info.st_size} bytes; limit is {max_bytes} bytes")
allowed = {suffix.lower() for suffix in suffixes}
if path.suffix.lower() not in allowed:
raise CliError(f"input suffix must be one of: {', '.join(sorted(allowed))}")
return path.resolve()
def checked_output_file(
value: str | os.PathLike[str],
*,
suffixes: Iterable[str],
force: bool = False,
) -> Path:
"""Validate an explicit local output without following symlinks."""
raw = os.fspath(value)
if "://" in raw:
raise CliError("network URLs are not accepted as output paths")
path = Path(raw).expanduser()
if path.name in {"", ".", ".."}:
raise CliError("output must name a file")
if path.is_symlink():
raise CliError(f"output must not be a symlink: {path}")
allowed = {suffix.lower() for suffix in suffixes}
if path.suffix.lower() not in allowed:
raise CliError(f"output suffix must be one of: {', '.join(sorted(allowed))}")
parent = path.parent
if not parent.exists() or not parent.is_dir() or parent.is_symlink():
raise CliError(f"output parent must be an existing regular directory: {parent}")
if path.exists():
if not path.is_file():
raise CliError(f"output exists and is not a regular file: {path}")
if not force:
raise CliError(f"refusing to overwrite existing output: {path}")
return parent.resolve() / path.name
def atomic_write_bytes(path: Path, payload: bytes, *, force: bool = False) -> None:
"""Write bytes through a private same-directory temporary file."""
destination = checked_output_file(path, suffixes={path.suffix.lower()}, force=force)
descriptor, temporary_name = tempfile.mkstemp(
prefix=f".{destination.name}.", suffix=".tmp", dir=destination.parent
)
temporary = Path(temporary_name)
try:
with os.fdopen(descriptor, "wb") as handle:
handle.write(payload)
handle.flush()
os.fsync(handle.fileno())
os.chmod(temporary, 0o600)
if destination.exists() and not force:
raise CliError(f"refusing to overwrite existing output: {destination}")
os.replace(temporary, destination)
finally:
temporary.unlink(missing_ok=True)
def _json_bytes(document: Any) -> bytes:
"""Serialize deterministic strict JSON."""
try:
payload = (
json.dumps(
document,
indent=2,
sort_keys=True,
ensure_ascii=False,
allow_nan=False,
)
+ "\n"
).encode("utf-8")
except (TypeError, ValueError) as exc:
raise CliError(f"report is not strict JSON: {exc}") from exc
if len(payload) > MAX_REPORT_BYTES:
raise CliError(
f"report is {len(payload)} bytes; limit is {MAX_REPORT_BYTES} bytes"
)
return payload
def emit_json(
document: Any,
*,
output: str | os.PathLike[str] | None = None,
force: bool = False,
) -> None:
"""Print deterministic JSON or write it atomically."""
payload = _json_bytes(document)
if output is None:
print(payload.decode("utf-8"), end="")
return
destination = checked_output_file(output, suffixes={".json"}, force=force)
atomic_write_bytes(destination, payload, force=force)
def emit_text(
text: str,
*,
output: str | os.PathLike[str] | None = None,
force: bool = False,
) -> None:
"""Print text or write it atomically to Markdown."""
payload = text.encode("utf-8")
if len(payload) > MAX_REPORT_BYTES:
raise CliError(
f"report is {len(payload)} bytes; limit is {MAX_REPORT_BYTES} bytes"
)
if output is None:
print(text, end="" if text.endswith("\n") else "\n")
return
destination = checked_output_file(output, suffixes={".md"}, force=force)
atomic_write_bytes(destination, payload, force=force)
def load_json(value: str | os.PathLike[str]) -> Any:
"""Load bounded strict JSON from a local file."""
path = checked_input_file(value, suffixes={".json"})
def reject_constant(constant: str) -> None:
raise CliError(f"non-standard JSON constant is not allowed: {constant}")
try:
with path.open("r", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
return json.load(handle, parse_constant=reject_constant)
except (OSError, json.JSONDecodeError) as exc:
raise CliError(f"cannot read valid JSON from {path.name}: {exc}") from exc
def read_csv(value: str | os.PathLike[str]):
"""Load a bounded local CSV with pandas, rejecting excessive dimensions."""
path = checked_input_file(value, suffixes={".csv"})
try:
import pandas as pd
except ImportError as exc:
raise CliError(
f"pandas is unavailable; install with `{PINNED_INSTALL}`"
) from exc
try:
with path.open(newline="", encoding="utf-8-sig") as handle:
header = next(csv.reader(handle), [])
if not header or any(not name.strip() for name in header):
raise CliError("CSV column names must be non-empty")
if len(header) != len(set(header)):
raise CliError("CSV column names must be unique before parsing")
frame = pd.read_csv(path, nrows=MAX_ROWS + 1)
except Exception as exc:
raise CliError(f"cannot parse CSV {path.name}: {exc}") from exc
validate_frame_bounds(frame)
return frame, path.name
def validate_frame_bounds(frame: Any) -> None:
"""Reject empty or oversized tabular inputs."""
rows, columns = frame.shape
if rows == 0:
raise CliError("input contains no rows")
if rows > MAX_ROWS:
raise CliError(f"input has {rows} rows; limit is {MAX_ROWS}")
if columns > MAX_FEATURES + 2:
raise CliError(f"input has {columns} columns; limit is {MAX_FEATURES + 2}")
if not frame.columns.is_unique:
raise CliError("column names must be unique")
def normalize_binary_event(values: Any):
"""Return a strict boolean event vector from bool or 0/1 values."""
try:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
except ImportError as exc:
raise CliError(
f"scientific stack unavailable; install with `{PINNED_INSTALL}`"
) from exc
series = pd.Series(values)
if series.isna().any():
raise CliError("event indicator contains missing values")
if pd.api.types.is_bool_dtype(series.dtype):
result = series.astype(bool).to_numpy()
elif pd.api.types.is_numeric_dtype(series.dtype):
numeric = pd.to_numeric(series, errors="raise").to_numpy(dtype=float)
if not np.isfinite(numeric).all() or not np.isin(numeric, [0.0, 1.0]).all():
raise CliError("event indicator must contain only boolean or 0/1 values")
result = numeric.astype(bool)
else:
normalized = series.astype(str).str.strip().str.casefold()
mapping = {"true": True, "false": False, "1": True, "0": False}
if not normalized.isin(mapping).all():
raise CliError(
"event indicator strings must be one of true, false, 1, or 0"
)
result = normalized.map(mapping).to_numpy(dtype=bool)
if not result.any():
raise CliError("at least one observed event is required")
return result
def normalize_positive_times(values: Any, *, label: str = "time"):
"""Return a finite, strictly positive float time vector."""
try:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
except ImportError as exc:
raise CliError(
f"scientific stack unavailable; install with `{PINNED_INSTALL}`"
) from exc
try:
times = np.asarray(pd.to_numeric(values, errors="raise"), dtype=float)
except (TypeError, ValueError) as exc:
raise CliError(f"{label} must contain only numeric values") from exc
if times.ndim != 1:
raise CliError(f"{label} must be one-dimensional")
if not np.isfinite(times).all():
raise CliError(f"{label} contains missing or non-finite values")
if (times <= 0).any():
raise CliError(f"{label} must be strictly positive")
return times
def structured_survival(
event: Any,
time: Any,
*,
event_name: str = "event",
time_name: str = "time",
):
"""Create scikit-survival's two-field structured outcome lazily."""
if event_name == time_name:
raise CliError("event and time field names must differ")
try:
from sksurv.util import Surv
except ImportError as exc:
raise CliError(
f"scikit-survival is unavailable; install with `{PINNED_INSTALL}`"
) from exc
return Surv.from_arrays(
event=normalize_binary_event(event),
time=normalize_positive_times(time),
name_event=event_name,
name_time=time_name,
)
def atomic_save_npy(
value: Any, output: str | os.PathLike[str], *, force: bool = False
) -> None:
"""Write a NumPy array with pickle disabled."""
try:
import numpy as np
except ImportError as exc:
raise CliError(
f"NumPy is unavailable; install with `{PINNED_INSTALL}`"
) from exc
destination = checked_output_file(output, suffixes={".npy"}, force=force)
buffer = io.BytesIO()
np.save(buffer, value, allow_pickle=False)
atomic_write_bytes(destination, buffer.getvalue(), force=force)
def atomic_save_npz(
arrays: dict[str, Any],
output: str | os.PathLike[str],
*,
force: bool = False,
) -> None:
"""Write named NumPy arrays to a compressed archive without object arrays."""
try:
import numpy as np
except ImportError as exc:
raise CliError(
f"NumPy is unavailable; install with `{PINNED_INSTALL}`"
) from exc
if not arrays:
raise CliError("at least one array is required")
for name, value in arrays.items():
array = np.asarray(value)
if array.dtype.hasobject:
raise CliError(f"array {name!r} has object dtype, which is not allowed")
destination = checked_output_file(output, suffixes={".npz"}, force=force)
buffer = io.BytesIO()
np.savez_compressed(buffer, **arrays)
atomic_write_bytes(destination, buffer.getvalue(), force=force)
def synthetic_survival_frame(
*, rows: int = 240, seed: int = DEFAULT_SEED
) -> tuple[Any, list[str], list[str]]:
"""Create deterministic, non-clinical right-censored tabular data."""
if not 40 <= rows <= MAX_ROWS:
raise CliError(f"synthetic rows must be between 40 and {MAX_ROWS}")
try:
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
except ImportError as exc:
raise CliError(
f"scientific stack unavailable; install with `{PINNED_INSTALL}`"
) from exc
rng = np.random.default_rng(seed)
x_linear = rng.normal(size=rows)
x_noise = rng.normal(size=rows)
segment = rng.choice(["alpha", "beta", "gamma"], size=rows, p=[0.4, 0.35, 0.25])
segment_effect = np.select(
[segment == "beta", segment == "gamma"], [0.35, -0.25], default=0.0
)
linear_predictor = 0.8 * x_linear + segment_effect
event_time = rng.exponential(scale=8.0 * np.exp(-linear_predictor))
censor_time = rng.exponential(scale=11.0, size=rows)
event = event_time <= censor_time
observed_time = np.minimum(event_time, censor_time) + 0.05
x_linear = x_linear.astype(float)
x_linear[::29] = np.nan
segment = segment.astype(object)
segment[::37] = np.nan
frame = pd.DataFrame(
{
"event": event,
"time": observed_time,
"x_linear": x_linear,
"x_noise": x_noise,
"segment": segment,
}
)
return frame, ["x_linear", "x_noise"], ["segment"]
Requirements and compatibility
Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta
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Needs: Declares allowed tools, Needs network access, Needs Python
The author says: Requires Python 3.11+, uv, and the pinned scikit-survival 0.28.0 stack for executable examples. Bundled CLIs are local and network-free by default.
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