CoxMain: The main function using block-wise mm-boosting algorithm

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

The main function using block-wise mm-boosting algorithm

Usage

1
2
CoxMain(delta, z, time, p, N, knot = 6, maxit = 300, rate = 0.05,
  tol = 0.001)

Arguments

delta

event indicator

z

Covariate matrix

time

the death time

p

number of variables

N

the sample size

knot

the number of basis functions for non-linear predictors

maxit

the number of maximum iterations

rate

the learning rate

tol

the convergence threshold

Value

return a list of the following values *beta : 1 denotes selected variables and 0 denotes unselected variables. *time : the used time *convergence : whether it's converge within maximum iteration steps *key : the number of iterations


LingfengLuo0510/CoxAdditive documentation built on May 7, 2019, 6:56 p.m.