title: Boosting method for nonlinear transformation models with censored survival data.
abstract: We propose a general class of nonlinear transformation models for analyzing censored survival data, of which the nonlinear proportional hazards and proportional odds models are special cases. A cubic smoothing spline-based component-wise boosting algorithm is derived to estimate covariate effects nonparametrically using the gradient of the marginal likelihood, that is computed using importance sampling. The proposed method can be applied to survival data with high-dimensional covariates, including the case when the sample size is smaller than the number of predictors. Empirical performance of the proposed method is evaluated via simulations and analysis of a microarray survival data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA. lu@stat.ncsu.edu
authors.forename: Wenbin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Lexin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000235:genetics; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D016019:Survival Analysis