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In the paper the comparison of ensemble based methods applied to censored survival data was conducted. Bagging survival trees, dipolar survival tree ensemble and random forest were taken into consideration. The prediction ability was evaluated by the integrated Brier score, the prediction measure developed for survival data. Two real datasets with different percentage of censored observations were examined.
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Kretowska, M. (2014). Comparison of Tree-Based Ensembles in Application to Censored Data. In: Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L.A., Zurada, J.M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. ICAISC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8467. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07173-2_47
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