Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department presents:

      Machine learning for time-to-event data and its
    relationship to the Kaplan-Meier estimator

     Wednesday April 12, 2023
     12:00 –12:50 pm
     Drachman Hall A114 and
     Zoom: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86778683494

P. Richard Hahn, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Arizona State University

Abstract: We review aspects of time-to-event data that make it challenging for non-parametric covariate adjustments. Recent work using tree-ensembles for survival analysis is based on a covariate-dependent version of the traditional Kaplan-Meier estimator, but is computationally impractical in many applied settings. We derive a continuous-analogue of the Kaplan-Meier estimator and describe how it can be used to do survival analysis with generic machine learning methods for conditional density estimation. 

Bio: P. Richard Hahn is Associate Professor of Statistics at Arizona State University. Prior to that he was Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received his PhD in Statistics from Duke University in 2011 and he also holds a bachelor's degree in Philosophy of Science from Columbia University. His research interests include Bayesian machine learning for causal inference, Monte Carlo methods, decision theory, interpretable data science, and semi-supervised learning. He escapes Phoenix's scorching summers in the cool mountains of Southwestern New Mexico with his wife and two young children.