Boosting in Cox regression: a comparison between the likelihood-based and the model-based approaches with focus on the R-packages \textit{CoxBoost} and \textit{mboost}

DOI10.1007/s00180-015-0642-2zbMath1342.65029OpenAlexW1883484737MaRDI QIDQ736636

Riccardo De Bin

Publication date: 4 August 2016

Published in: Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00180-015-0642-2

zbMATH Keywords

partial likelihoodsurvival analysisCox modelgradient descentmandatory variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Point estimation (62F10) Censored data models (62N01) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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Uses Software

• R
• mboost
• gbm
• GAMBoost
• CoxBoost
• pec

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