Uncensoring censored data for machine learning: A likelihood-based approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 7226-7234

  Štajduhar, Ivan ^a   Dalbelo Bašić, Bojana ^b  

^a University of Rijeka   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Censoring; Classification; Data likelihood; Denoising; Machine learning; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

CENSORING; DATA LIKELIHOOD; DE-NOISING; MACHINE-LEARNING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

BIOINFORMATICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84857658498     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.01.054     Document Type: Article

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