Improving Cox survival analysis with a neural-Bayesian approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 2989-3012

  Bakker, Bart ^a   Heskes, Tom ^a   Neijt, Jan ^a   Kappen, Bert ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALTRETAMINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OVARY CANCER; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NETHERLANDS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 4444301678     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1904     Document Type: Article

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