Feed forward neural networks for the analysis of censored survival data: A partial logistic regression approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1169-1186

  Biganzoli, Elia ^a   Boracchi, Patrizia ^b   Mariani, Luigi ^a   Marubini, Ettore ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENTROPY; ERROR; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031921607     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980530)17:10<1169::AID-SIM796>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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