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Exponential survival trees
Author(s) -
Davis Roger B.,
Anderson James R.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.4780080806
Subject(s) - statistics , computer science , survival analysis , mathematics
This paper concerns a recursive partitioning algorithm for incomplete survival data. The splitting criterion employed is exponential log‐likelihood loss. The method has been integrated into a computer program similar in structure to the commercial package CART. Special features incorporated into the program include a modification to prevent zero hazard estimates during the cross‐validation procedure and a method based on the chi‐square distribution for final tree selection. Simulation results demonstrate the program's capability to identify the underlying hazard structure in survival data. An example utilizing data from patients with diffuse large cell lymphoma is presented.