Tree-structured prognostic classification for censored survival data: Validation of computationally inexpensive model selection criteria

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 289-317

  Negassa, Abdissa ^a,e   Ciampi, Antonio ^a   Abrahamowicz, Michal ^a,b,c   Shapiro, Stanley ^a   Boivin, Jean François ^a,d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e HAMILTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Censored survival data; Prognostic classification; RECPAM; Regression trees; Two stage approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034349502     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650008812047     Document Type: Article

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