{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/k-adaptive-partitioning-for-survival-data","title":"K-Adaptive Partitioning for Survival Data, with an Application to Cancer Staging","arxiv_id":"1306.4615","date":"2013-06-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Soo-Heang Eo","Hyo Jeong Kang","Seung-Mo Hong","HyungJun Cho"],"abstract":"In medical research, it is often needed to obtain subgroups with heterogeneous survivals, which have been predicted from a prognostic factor. For this purpose, a binary split has often been used once or recursively; however, binary partitioning may not provide an optimal set of well separated subgroups. We propose a multi-way partitioning algorithm, which divides the data into K heterogeneous subgroups based on the information from a prognostic factor. The resulting subgroups show significant differences in survival. Such a multi-way partition is found by maximizing the minimum of the subgroup pairwise test statistics. An optimal number of subgroups is determined by a permutation test. Our developed algorithm is compared with two binary recursive partitioning algorithms. In addition, its usefulness is demonstrated with a real data of colorectal cancer cases from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results program. We have implemented our algorithm into an R package maps, which is freely available in the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.4615v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.4615v3.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"k-adaptive-partitioning-for-survival-data","repo_url":"https://github.com/sooheang/kaps","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}