A comparative study of forest methods for time-to-event data: variable selection and predictive performance

Abstract Background As a hot method in machine learning field, the forests approach is an attractive alternative approach to Cox model. Random survival forests (RSF) methodology is the most popular survival forests method, whereas its drawbacks exist such as a selection bias towards covariates with...

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Main Authors: Yingxin Liu, Shiyu Zhou, Hongxia Wei, Shengli An
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-09-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01386-8