Ishwaran, Hemant; Kogalur, Udaya B. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 80 (2010) 13-14, pp. 1056-1064
We prove uniform consistency of Random Survival Forests (RSF), a newly introduced forest ensemble learner for analysis of right-censored survival data. Consistency is proven under general splitting rules, bootstrapping, and random selection of variables--that is, under true implementation of the...