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dc.date.issued2004en_US
dc.date.submitted2011-07-11en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10852/10339
dc.description.abstractThis article is concerned with variable selection methods for the proportional hazards regression model. Including too many covariates causes extra variability and inflated confidence intervals for regression parameters, so regimes for discarding the less informative ones are needed. Our framework has p covariates designated as `protected' while variables from a further set of q covariates are examined for possible in- or exclusion. In addition to deriving results for the AIC method, defined via the partial likelihood, we develop a focussed information criterion that for given interest parameter finds the best subset of covariates. Thus the FIC might find that the best model for predicting median survival time might be different from the best model for estimating survival probabilities, and the best overall model for analysing survival for men might not be the same as the best overall model for analysing survival for women. We also develop methodology for model averaging, where the final estimate of a quantity is a weighted average of estimates computed for a range of submodels. Our methods are illustrated in simulations and for a survival study of Danish skin cancer patients.eng
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMatematisk Institutt, Universitetet i Oslo
dc.relation.ispartofPreprint series. Statistical Research Report http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-23420en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-23420
dc.rights© The Author(s) (2004). This material is protected by copyright law. Without explicit authorisation, reproduction is only allowed in so far as it is permitted by law or by agreement with a collecting society.
dc.titleFocussed information criteria and model averaging for Cox's hazard regression modelen_US
dc.typeResearch reporten_US
dc.date.updated2011-07-11en_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2004 The Author(s)
dc.creator.authorHjort, Nils Liden_US
dc.creator.authorClaeskens, Gerdaen_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::410en_US
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-28588en_US
dc.type.documentForskningsrapporten_US
dc.identifier.duo132335en_US
dc.identifier.fulltextFulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/10339/1/stat-res-16-04.pdf


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