Boosting method for nonlinear transformation models with censored survival data

Biostatistics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 658-667

  Lu, Wenbin ^a   Li, Lexin ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; Censored survival data; Importance sampling; Marginal likelihood; Nonlinear transformation models; Smoothing spline

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LYMPHOMA, LARGE B-CELL, DIFFUSE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 52449121990     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxn005     Document Type: Article

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