A review of recent advances in empirical likelihood

P Liu, Y Zhao - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical likelihood is widely used in many statistical problems. In this article, we provide a
review of the empirical likelihood method, due to its significant development in recent years …

Most likely transformations

T Hothorn, L Möst, P Bühlmann - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We propose and study properties of maximum likelihood estimators in the class of
conditional transformation models. Based on a suitable explicit parameterization of the …

Patient risk stratification with time-varying parameters: a multitask learning approach

J Wiens, J Guttag, E Horvitz - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2016 - jmlr.org
The proliferation of electronic health records (EHRs) frames opportunities for using machine
learning to build models that help healthcare providers improve patient outcomes. However …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical likelihood for linear transformation models with interval-censored failure time data

Z Zhang, Y Zhao - Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2013 - Elsevier
For regression analysis of interval-censored failure time data, Zhang et al.(2005)[40]
proposed an estimating equation approach to fit linear transformation models. In this paper …

Penalized empirical likelihood for the sparse Cox regression model

D Wang, TT Wu, Y Zhao - Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2019 - Elsevier
The current penalized regression methods for selecting predictor variables and estimating
the associated regression coefficients in the sparse Cox model are mainly based on partial …

Survival neural networks for time-to-event prediction in longitudinal study

J Zhang, L Chen, Y Ye, G Guo, R Chen… - … and Information Systems, 2020 - Springer
Time-to-event prediction has been an important practical task for longitudinal studies in
many fields such as manufacturing, medicine, and healthcare. While most of the …

[HTML][HTML] Semiparametric inference for transformation models via empirical likelihood

Y Zhao - Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent advances in the transformation model have made it possible to use this model for
analyzing a variety of censored survival data. For inference on the regression parameters …

Survival prediction by an integrated learning criterion on intermittently varying healthcare data

J Zhang, L Chen, A Vanasse, J Courteau… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2016 - ojs.aaai.org
Survival prediction is crucial to healthcare research, but is confined primarily to specific
types of data involving only the present measurements. This paper considers the more …

[HTML][HTML] Empirical likelihood inferences for the semiparametric additive isotonic regression

G Cheng, Y Zhao, B Li - Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2012 - Elsevier
We consider the (profile) empirical likelihood inferences for the regression parameter (and
its any sub-component) in the semiparametric additive isotonic regression model where …

Novel empirical likelihood inference for the mean difference with right-censored data

K Alemdjrodo, Y Zhao - Statistical Methods in Medical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper focuses on comparing two means and finding a confidence interval for the
difference of two means with right-censored data using the empirical likelihood method …