Recursively imputed survival trees

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 497, 2012, Pages 331-340

  Zhu, Ruoqing ^a   Kosorok, Michael R ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored data; Ensemble; Imputation; Random forests; Survival analysis; Trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862899420     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2011.637468     Document Type: Article

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