Hofner, Benjamin; Hothorn, Torsten; Kneib, Thomas - In: Computational Statistics 28 (2013) 3, pp. 1079-1101
We aim at modeling the survival time of intensive care patients suffering from severe sepsis. The nature of the problem requires a flexible model that allows to extend the classical Cox-model via the inclusion of time-varying and nonparametric effects. These structured survival models are very...