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Modeling And Survival Analysis Of Breast Cancer: A Statistical, Artificial Neural Network, And Decision Tree Approach, Venkateswara Rao Mudunuru

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Survival analysis today is widely implemented in the fields of medical and biological sciences, social sciences, econometrics, and engineering. The basic principle behind the survival analysis implies to a statistical approach designed to take into account the amount of time utilized for a study period, or the study of time between entry into observation and a subsequent event. The event of interest pertains to death and the analysis consists of following the subject until death. Events or outcomes are defined by a transition from one discrete state to another at an instantaneous moment in time. In the recent years, research …