Relative risk forests for exercise heart rate recovery as a predictor of mortality

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 467, 2004, Pages 591-600

  Ishwaran, Hemant ^a   Blackstone, Eugene H ^a   Pothier, Claire E ^a   Lauer, Michael S ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cox regression; MARS; Proportional hazards; Random forests; Relative risk trees; Stochastic variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944264367     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000000638     Document Type: Review

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