Abstract The study of dementia risk factors is complicated by the competing risk of dying. The standard approaches are the cause-specific Cox proportional hazard model with deaths treated as censoring events (and removed from the risk set) and the Fine and Gray sub-distribution hazard model in...

Case-based reasoning is a flexible methodology to manage softwaredevelopment related tasks. However, when the reasoner’s task is prediction,there are a number of different CBR techniques that could be chosen to addressthe characteristics of a dataset. We examine several of these techniques...