Two Artificial Neural Networks for Modeling Discrete Survival Time of Censored Data

Table 1

Mean prediction error for the eight competing neural network models for estimating the survival time of male melanoma patients.

	Mean	St. dv.	Count
Elia’s method
α = 0.025	−0.3776	1.7876	85460
α = 0.050	−0.4113	1.9388	85460
α = 0.075	−0.308	1.4295	85460
α = 0.1	−0.3366	1.5329	85460
Mani’s method
α = 0.025	−0.0236	0.2029	85460
α = 0.050	−0.0215	0.1710	85460
α = 0.075	−0.0197	0.1539	85460
α = 0.1	−0.0197	0.1485	85460