The authors present a summary of the recently developed SUPPORT model (Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment) for estimating survival time of seriously ill adult inpatients and illustrate the possible clinical use of such a model.
The goal of this thesis is to modify projection pursuit by trading accuracy for interpretability. The modification produces a more parsimonious and understandable model without sacrificing the structure which projection pursuit seeks.
