The use of resampling methods to simplify regression models in medical statistics

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 313-329

  Sauerbrei, Willi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backward elimination; Bootstrap; Cross validation; Model complexity; Prediction; Selection bias; Selection level

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033426505     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00155     Document Type: Article

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