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Assessing The Performance And Merit Of The Random Survival Forest And Cox Models On A Pancreatic Cancer Data Set, Carl Edward Mueller
Assessing The Performance And Merit Of The Random Survival Forest And Cox Models On A Pancreatic Cancer Data Set, Carl Edward Mueller
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Random Survival Forest (RSF) is one of the most powerful and easily applied machine learning models for survival data. RSF sacrifices some of the interpretability of the decision trees used to grow the forest in order to significantly reduce the bias and variance of the basic classification and regression tree (CART) paradigm. The lessened interpretability and higher computational intensity of RSF means that it may not always be the preferred method, even in settings where black-box methods are readily used. By contrast, the Cox Proportional Hazards (PH) model is incredibly flexible, resistant to overfitting, and transparently estimable. The tradeoff for …