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Variable Selection In Competing Risks Using The L1-Penalized Cox Model, Xiangrong Kong
Variable Selection In Competing Risks Using The L1-Penalized Cox Model, Xiangrong Kong
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One situation in survival analysis is that the failure of an individual can happen because of one of multiple distinct causes. Survival data generated in this scenario are commonly referred to as competing risks data. One of the major tasks, when examining survival data, is to assess the dependence of survival time on explanatory variables. In competing risks, as with ordinary univariate survival data, there may be explanatory variables associated with the risks raised from the different causes being studied. The same variable might have different degrees of influence on the risks due to different causes. Given a set of …