Square root Cox's survival analysis by the fittest linear and neural networks model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19374v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:48:58 GMT
• Title: Square root Cox's survival analysis by the fittest linear and neural networks model
• Authors: Maxime van Cutsem, Sylvain Sardy,
• Abstract summary: We revisit Cox's proportional hazard models and LASSO in the aim of improving feature selection in survival analysis.<n>Unlike traditional methods relying on cross-validation or BIC, the penalty parameter $lambda$ is directly tuned for feature selection.
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• Abstract: We revisit Cox's proportional hazard models and LASSO in the aim of improving feature selection in survival analysis. Unlike traditional methods relying on cross-validation or BIC, the penalty parameter $\lambda$ is directly tuned for feature selection and is asymptotically pivotal thanks to taking the square root of Cox's partial likelihood. Substantially improving over both cross-validation LASSO and BIC subset selection, our approach has a phase transition on the probability of retrieving all and only the good features, like in compressed sensing. The method can be employed by linear models but also by artificial neural networks.

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