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Pseudo-value regression trees

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  • Alina Schenk

    (Medical Faculty, University of Bonn)

  • Moritz Berger

    (Medical Faculty, University of Bonn)

  • Matthias Schmid

    (Medical Faculty, University of Bonn)

Abstract

This paper presents a semi-parametric modeling technique for estimating the survival function from a set of right-censored time-to-event data. Our method, named pseudo-value regression trees (PRT), is based on the pseudo-value regression framework, modeling individual-specific survival probabilities by computing pseudo-values and relating them to a set of covariates. The standard approach to pseudo-value regression is to fit a main-effects model using generalized estimating equations (GEE). PRT extend this approach by building a multivariate regression tree with pseudo-value outcome and by successively fitting a set of regularized additive models to the data in the nodes of the tree. Due to the combination of tree learning and additive modeling, PRT are able to perform variable selection and to identify relevant interactions between the covariates, thereby addressing several limitations of the standard GEE approach. In addition, PRT include time-dependent effects in the node-wise models. Interpretability of the PRT fits is ensured by controlling the tree depth. Based on the results of two simulation studies, we investigate the properties of the PRT method and compare it to several alternative modeling techniques. Furthermore, we illustrate PRT by analyzing survival in 3,652 patients enrolled for a randomized study on primary invasive breast cancer.

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  • Alina Schenk & Moritz Berger & Matthias Schmid, 2024. "Pseudo-value regression trees," Lifetime Data Analysis: An International Journal Devoted to Statistical Methods and Applications for Time-to-Event Data, Springer, vol. 30(2), pages 439-471, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lifeda:v:30:y:2024:i:2:d:10.1007_s10985-024-09618-x
    DOI: 10.1007/s10985-024-09618-x
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