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A survival tree based on stabilized score tests for high-dimensional covariates

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  • Takeshi Emura
  • Wei-Chern Hsu
  • Wen-Chi Chou

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A survival tree can classify subjects into different survival prognostic groups. However, when data contains high-dimensional covariates, the two popular classification trees exhibit fatal drawbacks. The logrank tree is unstable and tends to have false nodes; the conditional inference tree is difficult to interpret the adjusted P-value for high-dimensional tests. Motivated by these problems, we propose a new survival tree based on the stabilized score tests. We propose a novel matrix-based algorithm in order to tests a number of nodes simultaneously via stabilized score tests. We propose a recursive partitioning algorithm to construct a survival tree and develop our original R package uni.survival.tree (https://cran.r-project.org/package=uni.survival.tree) for implementation. Simulations are performed to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over the existing methods. The lung cancer data analysis demonstrates the usefulness of the proposed method.

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  • Takeshi Emura & Wei-Chern Hsu & Wen-Chi Chou, 2023. "A survival tree based on stabilized score tests for high-dimensional covariates," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(2), pages 264-290, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:50:y:2023:i:2:p:264-290
    DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2021.1990224
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