A New Variable Screening Procedure for COX'S Model
Open Access
Author:
Yu, Ye
Graduate Program:
Statistics
Degree:
Master of Science
Document Type:
Master Thesis
Date of Defense:
None
Committee Members:
Runze Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keywords:
screening COX's model high dimensional iterative procedure
Abstract:
Survival data with ultrahigh dimensional covariates such as genetic markers have been collected in medical studies and other fields. In this thesis, we propose a feature screening procedure for the Cox model with ultrahigh dimensional covariates. The proposed procedure is distinguished from the existing sure independence screening (SIS) procedures (Fan, Feng and Wu, 2010, Zhao and Li, 2012) in that the proposed procedure is based on joint likelihood of potential active predictors, and therefore is not a marginal screening procedure.
The proposed procedure can effectively identify active predictors that are jointly dependent but marginally independent of the response without performing an
iterative procedure. We develop a computationally effective algorithm to carry out the proposed procedure and establish the ascent property of the proposed algorithm. We also conduct Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate the finite sample performance of the proposed procedure and further compare the proposed procedure
and existing SIS procedures. The proposed methodology is also demonstrated through an empirical analysis of a real data example.
