# Module auton_survival.models.dsm.datasets

Utility functions to load standard datasets to train and evaluate the Deep Survival Machines models.

## Functions

 def increase_censoring(e, t, p) 
 def load_dataset(dataset='SUPPORT', **kwargs) 

Helper function to load datasets to test Survival Analysis models.

Currently implemented datasets include:

SUPPORT: This dataset comes from the Vanderbilt University study to estimate survival for seriously ill hospitalized adults [1]. (Refer to http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/Main/SupportDesc. for the original datasource.)

PBC: The Primary biliary cirrhosis dataset [2] is well known dataset for evaluating survival analysis models with time dependent covariates.

FRAMINGHAM: This dataset is a subset of 4,434 participants of the well known, ongoing Framingham Heart study [3] for studying epidemiology for hypertensive and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. It is a popular dataset for longitudinal survival analysis with time dependent covariates.

## References

[1]: Knaus WA, Harrell FE, Lynn J et al. (1995): The SUPPORT prognostic model: Objective estimates of survival for seriously ill hospitalized adults. Annals of Internal Medicine 122:191-203.

[2] Fleming, Thomas R., and David P. Harrington. Counting processes and survival analysis. Vol. 169. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

[3] Dawber, Thomas R., Gilcin F. Meadors, and Felix E. Moore Jr. "Epidemiological approaches to heart disease: the Framingham Study." American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health 41.3 (1951).

## Parameters

dataset : str
The choice of dataset to load. Currently implemented is 'SUPPORT', 'PBC' and 'FRAMINGHAM'.
**kwargs : dict
Dataset specific keyword arguments.

## Returns

tuple : (np.ndarray, np.ndarray, np.ndarray)
A tuple of the form of (x, t, e) where x, t, e are the input covariates, event times and the censoring indicators respectively.