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

Table 2

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

	Mean	St. dv.	Count
Elia’s method
α = 0.025	−0.3384	2.1326	69130
α = 0.050	−0.2274	14451	69130
α = 0.075	−0.1882	1.1672	69130
α = 0.1	−0.2011	1.2199	69130
Mani’s method
α = 0.025	−0.0208	0.2310	69130
α = 0.050	−0.0183	0.1849	69130
α = 0.075	−0.0167	0.1606	69130
α = 0.1	−0.0246	0.3022	69130