A novel neural network-based survival analysis model

Neural Networks

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 855-864

  Eleuteri, Antonio ^a,b   Tagliaferri, Roberto ^c,d   Milano, Leopoldo ^a,b   De Placido, Sabino ^a   De Laurentiis, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^d INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian learning; Conditioning probability estimation; MCMC methods; Neural networks; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

LINEAR MODELS;

FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0038016960     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-6080(03)00098-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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