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Hemant Ishwaran1, Thomas A Gerds2, Udaya B Kogalur3, Richard D Moore4, Stephen J Gange5, Bryan M Lau5.
Abstract
We introduce a new approach to competing risks using random forests. Our method is fully non-parametric and can be used for selecting event-specific variables and for estimating the cumulative incidence function. We show that the method is highly effective for both prediction and variable selection in high-dimensional problems and in settings such as HIV/AIDS that involve many competing risks.Entities:
Keywords: AIDS; Brier score; C-index; Competing risks; Cumulative incidence function; Ensemble
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24728979 PMCID: PMC4173102 DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxu010
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biostatistics ISSN: 1465-4644 Impact factor: 5.899