Iterative partial least squares with right-censored data analysis: a comparison to other dimension reduction

Jie Huang1, David Harrington

  • 1Section of Clinical Science, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. jjhuang@post.harvard.edu

Biometrics
|March 2, 2005
PubMed

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