Lasso tree for cancer staging with survival data

Biostatistics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 327-339

  Lin, Yunzhi ^a   Wang, Sijian ^a   Chappell, Richard J ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer staging; Cox model; Lasso; Lasso tree; Model selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL TUMOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

BIOSTATISTICS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874891700     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxs044     Document Type: Article

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