Journal
STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 3, Pages 937-952Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0962280217739522
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Accelerated failure time; Buckley-James estimating equation; censored data; Dantzig selector; variable selection
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- centre for research in Statistical Methodology (CRiSM), Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, UK
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We develop variable selection approaches for accelerated failure time models, consisting of a group of algorithms based on a synthesis of two widely used techniques in the area of variable selection for survival analysis-the Buckley-James method and the Dantzig selector. Two algorithms are based on proposed modified Buckley-James estimating methods that are designed for high-dimensional censored data. Another two algorithms are based on a two-stage weighted Dantzig selector method where weights are obtained from the two proposed synthesis-based algorithms. The methods are easy to understand and they perform estimation and variable selection simultaneously. Furthermore, they can deal with collinearity among the covariates. We conducted several simulation studies and one empirical analysis with a microarray dataset; these studies demonstrated satisfactory variable selection performance. In addition, the microarray data analysis shows the methods performing similarly to three other correlation-based greedy variable selection techniques in the literature-sure independence screening, tilted correlation screening (TCS), and partial correlation (PC) simple. This empirical study also found that the sure independence screening technique considerably improves the performance of most of the proposed methods.
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