{"id":3960,"date":"2024-04-07T01:33:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T23:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:18:49","slug":"survival-analysis-modelling-time-to-event-data-with-time-varying-features-using-survival-trees-and-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/04\/07\/survival-analysis-modelling-time-to-event-data-with-time-varying-features-using-survival-trees-and-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival Analysis: Modelling Time to Event Data with Time Varying Features using Survival Trees and Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Andisani Nemavhola, University of Venda<br \/><strong>Supervisors<\/strong>: Dr Justine Nasejje, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><p>This study presents and implements random survival forests (RSF) and two of its split rules. The two RSF split rules that this study focuses on are the ????1 and the logrank.<\/p><p>The research questions for this study are the following:<\/p><ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Can the proposed ????1 split rule for building RSF be used in the presence of non-proportional hazards<br \/>or time varying covariates?<\/li>\n\n<li>Does the proposed ????1 split rule for RSF perform better than the log rank split rule?<\/li><\/ol><p><br \/><\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Andisani Nemavhola, University of VendaSupervisors: Dr Justine Nasejje, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg This study presents and implements random survival forests (RSF) and two of its split rules. The two RSF split rules that this study focuses on are the ????1 and the logrank. The research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}