Infinite mixture-of-experts model for sparse survival regression with application to breast cancer

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>We present an infinite mixture-of-experts model to find an unknown number of sub-groups within a given patient cohort based on survival analysis. The effect of patient features on survival is modeled using the Cox’s proportionality h...

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Main Authors: Dahl Edgar, Wild Peter J, Fuchs Thomas J, Raman Sudhir, Buhmann Joachim M, Roth Volker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-10-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/S8/S8