Random Survival Forest

Random Survival Forest (RSF), introduced by Ishwaran, Kogalur, Blackstone, and Lauer in 2008, is an ensemble machine learning method that adapts the Random Forest algorithm to time-to-event (survival) data. Trees are grown using log-rank splitting to handle censored observations naturally, and the ensemble aggregates cumulative hazard functions across hundreds of trees to produce predictions and variable importance rankings.