Research Article

A Simulation Study to Compare the Predictive Performance of Survival Neural Networks with Cox Models for Clinical Trial Data

Table 1

Proportions for the 16 unique combinations in the original data with 422 patients. Mean and standard deviation of age at the date of surgery are provided per combination.

TreatmentSexHistological responseExcisionProportionMean age (sd)

Regimen CFemalePoorUnknown/incomplete0.0212.05 (4.44)
Regimen CFemalePoorComplete0.1217.04 (7.35)
Regimen CFemaleGoodUnknown/incomplete0.0111.06 (2.48)
Regimen CFemaleGoodComplete0.0513.72 (5.17)
Regimen CMalePoorUnknown/incomplete0.0112.48 (1.30)
Regimen CMalePoorComplete0.1716.70 (6.93)
Regimen CMaleGoodUnknown/incomplete0.0214.30 (2.77)
Regimen CMaleGoodComplete0.0916.07 (5.19)
Regimen DIFemalePoorUnknown/incomplete0.0114.60 (2.33)
Regimen DIFemalePoorComplete0.0815.35 (6.24)
Regimen DIFemaleGoodUnknown/incomplete0.0113.85 (6.12)
Regimen DIFemaleGoodComplete0.0914.34 (5.49)
Regimen DIMalePoorUnknown/incomplete0.0315.87 (4.04)
Regimen DIMalePoorComplete0.1418.54 (6.02)
Regimen DIMaleGoodUnknown/incomplete0.0110.63 (2.98)
Regimen DIMaleGoodComplete0.1417.11 (5.64)