Random Forests in Survival Analysis

• Grant number: 11/02050-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: December 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Probability and Statistics
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Carlos Pedroso de Lima
• Grantee: Victor Silva Ritter
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project consists in the study and application of the Random Survival Forests technique, introduced by Ishwaran et al (2008). The main objectives are: to compare the random forests technique with the traditional survival methods and to evaluate the possibility of using this methodology to analyze data from patients with endocarditis.