##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences ~~META:title =December 03, 2015~~ ^ **DATE:**|Thursday, December 03, 2015 | ^ **TIME:**|1:15pm to 2:15pm | ^ **LOCATION:**|WH 100E | ^ **SPEAKER:**|Rachael Kline, Binghamton University| ^ **TITLE:**|Variable selection for Cox proportional hazards regression model| \\ **Abstract**We will discuss the following papers on variable selection for Cox proportional hazards regression model. * Insuk Sohn, Jinseog Kim, Sin-Ho Jung, and Changyi Park. Gradient lasso for Cox proportional hazards model. //Bioinformatics// (2009) 25 (14): 1775-1781 first published online May 15, 2009 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp322 * Sushil Mittal, David Madigan, Randall S. Burd, and Marc A. Suchard. High-dimensional, massive sample-size Cox proportional hazards regression for survival analysis. //Biostatistics// (2014) 15 (2): 207-221 first published online October 4, 2013 doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxt043