types, per patient) and potentially messy data sets. Other strands of this project might include the development of (asymptotically) efficient methods for survival analysis that make use of machine learning methods to exploit the amount of data present.

Alternatively, there may be investigations into survival-specific dimension reduction methods that can make such data sets more easily used and understood, perhaps incorporating prior information about the relationships between different levels of molecular data (e.g. DNA, RNA, protein) or prior knowledge of gene interaction networks.

Funding Notes

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