Section 1 demonstrates the connection between the Brier Score in the absence of censoring versus the inverse probability-of-censoring weighted Brier Score. Section 2 derives the meansquared error decomposition presented in Section 3 of the main paper, and presents illustrations and examples regarding the impact of candidate survival models on performance. In addition, a simple example illustrat...

For estimating conditional survival functions, non-parametric estimators can be preferred to parametric and semi-parametric estimators due to relaxed assumptions that enable robust estimation. Yet, even when misspecified, parametric and semi-parametric estimators can possess better operating characteristics in small sample sizes due to smaller variance than non-parametric estimators. Fundamenta...

background : the aim of this study was to predict the survival rate of iranian gastric cancer patients using the cox proportional hazard and artificial neural network models as well as comparing the ability of these approaches in predicting the survival of these patients. methods: in this historical cohort study, the data gathered from 436 registered gastric cancer patients who have had surgery...