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New research explores conformal prediction for competing risks with censoring

This paper explores conformal prediction methods for competing risks, focusing on how censoring affects coverage guarantees. The authors investigate the impact of complete-case calibration, which only considers fully observed data, and demonstrate that it can lead to under-coverage, especially when censoring is prevalent. They propose using weights derived from a correctly specified censoring model to maintain nominal coverage, extending prior work on cause labels and establishing a finite-sample coverage lower bound that accounts for censoring model error. AI

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New research explores conformal prediction for competing risks with censoring

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  1. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Sunny Yang, Weiyan Zhao ·

    When does conformal calibration need censoring weights? Cause-of-failure prediction sets under competing risks

    arXiv:2610.08602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Split conformal prediction sets for competing-risks labels at a fixed horizon require calibration labels that right censoring can leave unobserved. Complete-case calibration guarantees coverage for the label-complete subpopulation…