Assessing variable importance in survival analysis using machine learning

DOI10.1093/BIOMET/ASAE061MaRDI QIDQ6915802zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors C. J. Wolock, Peter B. Gilbert, Noah Simon, Marco Carone

Publication date 15 October 2025

Published in Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/BIOMET/ASAE061

zbMATH Keywords

censoringdebiased machine learningfeature importancetime-to-event outcome

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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