This article addresses a connection between the Bradley and Terry (1952A) model and Cox (1972) proportional hazards model. We show that the partial likelihood of random variables that satisfy the stratified proportional hazards assumption of Cox (1972) coincides with the likelihood given by the Bradley-Terry (BT) model for rank order events. Such a connection not only allows many available soft...

BACKGROUND Polytomous logistic regression models are commonly used in case-control studies of cancer to directly compare the risks associated with an exposure variable across multiple cancer subtypes. However, the validity, accuracy, and efficiency of this approach for prospective cohort studies have not been formally evaluated. METHODS We investigated the performance of the polytomous logist...

Bias variance decomposition of the expected error defined for regression and classification problems is an important tool to study and compare different algorithms, to find the best areas for their application. Here the decomposition is introduced for the survival analysis problem. In our experiments, we study bias -variance parts of the expected error for two algorithms: original Cox proportio...

PURPOSE In advanced prostate cancer, malignant cells generally tend to spread into the bone, and metastasis into nonregional lymph nodes (NRLNs) at the time of initial diagnosis is relatively rare. We investigated the prognostic significance of NRLN metastasis in patients receiving hormonal therapy and chemotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS From February 2005 to August 2011, we identified 105 pa...

background: kidney transplantation is the best alternative treatment for end-stage renal disease. several studies have been devoted to investigate predisposing factors of graft rejection. however, there is inconsistency between the results. the objective of the present study was to utilize an intuitive and robust approach for variable selection, random survival forests (rsf), and to identify im...