Learning from local to global - an efficient distributed algorithm for modeling time-to-event data
Rui Duan, Chongliang Luo, Martijn J. Schuemie, Jiayi Tong, C Jason Liang, Howard H. Chang, Mary Regina Boland, Jiang Bian, Hua Xu, John H. Holmes, Christopher B. Forrest, Sally C. Morton, Jesse A. Berlin, Jason H. Moore, Kevin B Mahoney, Yong Chen
The paper introduces ODAC, a privacy-preserving distributed algorithm for multi-center Cox proportional hazard models, showing it matches pooled estimates and outperforms meta-analysis for rare events.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association · Mar 28, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics