| Literature DB >> 19502615 |
Hemant Ishwaran1, Eugene H Blackstone, Carolyn Apperson-Hansen, Thomas W Rice.
Abstract
A novel 3-step random forests methodology involving survival data (survival forests), ordinal data (multiclass forests), and continuous data (regression forests) is introduced for cancer staging. The methodology is illustrated for esophageal cancer using worldwide esophageal cancer collaboration data involving 4627 patients.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19502615 PMCID: PMC3590074 DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxp016
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biostatistics ISSN: 1465-4644 Impact factor: 5.899