Dipolar Tree Ensemble With and Without Adjustment to Competing Risks: Application to Medical Data

• Authors: Małgorzata Krętowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The analysis of survival data often aims at the prediction of failure time distribution. In cases of competing risk events, the time distributions of more than one failure are under investigation. In this paper, the comparison of two approaches to analyzing survival data with competing risks is presented. The analyses are performed by use of an ensemble of dipolar trees with and without adjustment to competing risks.

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 27-38

Dates

published

2013-12-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Krętowska

• Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/slgr-2013-0038