Modeling the covariates effects on the hazard function by piecewise exponential artificial neural networks: an

Marco Fornili1, Patrizia Boracchi2, Federico Ambrogi2

  • 1Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, via Venezian 1, 20133, Milan, Italy. marco.fornili@unimi.it.

BMC Bioinformatics
|August 2, 2018
PubMed
Abstract

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