Boosting with missing predictors

Biostatistics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 195-212

  Wang, C Y ^a   Feng, Ziding ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive model; Classification; Imputation; Nonmonotone missing pattern

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TUMOR MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS TUMOR; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77749279468     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxp052     Document Type: Article

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