Learning transformation models for ranking and survival analysis

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages 819-862

  Van Belle, Vanya ^a   Pelckmans, Kristiaan ^b   Suykens, Johan A K ^a   Van Huffel, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ordinal regression; Preference learning; Ranking models; Support vector machines; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE MODELS; AREA UNDER THE CURVES; BENCHMARK DATA; CLINICAL DATA; FAILURE TIME; FINITE SET; HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA; KERNEL MACHINE; LIPSCHITZ; MACHINE-LEARNING; MONOTONE TRANSFORMATION; NON-LINEAR; ORDINAL REGRESSION; PREFERENCE LEARNING; PRIMAL-DUAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMS; RANKING MODELS; RANKING PROBLEMS; RISK MINIMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL DATA; TRANSFORMATION MODEL;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 79955836082     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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