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A gradient-descent boosting algorithm is presented for survival time data, where the individual additive components are regression trees.
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Benner, A. (2002). Application of “Aggregated Classifiers” in Survival Time Studies. In: Härdle, W., Rönz, B. (eds) Compstat. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57489-4_21
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