A simulation study of cross-validation for selecting an optimal cutpoint in univariate survival analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 1996, Pages 2203-2213

  Faraggi, David ^a   Simon, Richard ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COVARIANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEASUREMENT; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029848604     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961030)15:20<2203::AID-SIM357>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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