System and method for combining hetergeneous predictors with an application to survival anaylsis

摘要

A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium for predicting a risk in a survival analysis for a plurality of individuals characterized by at least one predictor are disclosed. A method for estimating risk order of an individual, given information about a set of individuals, characterized by one or many predictors, and provided that direction of association between each predictor and the risk order is known, comprising the step of comparing the individual with each individual within the set of individuals, and estimating risk of individual based on set comparisons.