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Boosting algorithms for fitting generalized linear, additive and interaction models to potentially high-dimensional data. The current relase version can be found on CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org/package=mboost).
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C-index family... #53

Closed mayrandy closed 8 years ago

mayrandy commented 8 years ago

We should include the C-index family to fit the concordance index for survival data in mboost:

Mayr, A., Hofner, B. and Schmid, M. (2016): Boosting the discriminatory power of sparse survival models via optimization of the concordance index and stability selection. BMC Bioinformatics. 17:288. DOI 10.1186/s12859-016-1149-8

Mayr, A. and Schmid, M. (2014): Boosting the concordance index for survival data - a unified framework to derive and evaluate biomarker combinations. PLoS ONE 9(1): e84483. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084483.

hofnerb commented 8 years ago

yeah, of course we should. please feel free to go ahead.