Proportional Hazards Model
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A Proportional Hazards Model is a survival model for proportional hazard functions (where the unique effect of a unit increase in a covariate is multiplicative with respect to the hazard rate).
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- See: Covariate, Hazards Rate, Proportional Hazard.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_hazards_model Retrieved:2020-2-3.
- Proportional hazards models are a class of survival models in statistics. Survival models relate the time that passes, before some event occurs, to one or more covariates that may be associated with that quantity of time. In a proportional hazards model, the unique effect of a unit increase in a covariate is multiplicative with respect to the hazard rate. For example, taking a drug may halve one's hazard rate for a stroke occurring, or, changing the material from which a manufactured component is constructed may double its hazard rate for failure. Other types of survival models such as accelerated failure time models do not exhibit proportional hazards. The accelerated failure time model describes a situation where the biological or mechanical life history of an event is accelerated (or decelerated).