A New Entropy Optimization Model for Graduation of Data in Survival Analysis

Graduation of data is of great importance in survival analysis. Smoothness and goodness of fit are two fundamental requirements in graduation. Based on the instinctive defining expression for entropy in terms of a probability distribution, two optimization models based on the Maximum Entropy Princip...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qi Huang, Jianwei Gao, Dayi He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-07-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/14/8/1306