Modern Survival Analysis in Clinical Research: Cox Regressions Versus Accelerated Failure Time Models

Ton J. Cleophas is internist-clinical pharmacologist at the Department of Medicine Albert Schweitzer Hospital Dordrecht the Netherlands. He is also professor of Statistics and member of the Scientific Committee of the European College of Pharmaceutical Medicine Lyon France. He is particularly interested in machine learning methodologies and published many complete-overview-textbooks of the subject.

Aeilko H. Zwinderman is professor of Statistics and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Amsterdam the Netherlands. His current work focuses on development and validation of multivariable models, particularly in genetic research, and he is a major developer of penalized canonical analysis.