In simulated RCT time-to-event data, random survival forest retained predictive performance better when treatment-covariate interactions were present than when they were absent.
By 2026-10-01, authors reported a neutral comparison of Cox proportional hazards regression and random survival forest for predicting patient-specific survival probabilities, using varied simulation scenarios based on two RCT reference datasets and TRIPOD-aligned metrics. They observed that C-index-only conclusions did not generalize, that overall performance measures appeared more reasonable, and that splitting rule choice mattered for RSF.
- Impact 30%
- 49
- Evidence 25%
- 95
- Scale 20%
- 35
- Confidence 15%
- 87
- Recency 10%
- 98
Updated Oct 1, 2026 · TRV-2026-1232
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