Stability of multivariable fractional polynomial models with selection of variables and transformations: A bootstrap investigation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 639-659

  Royston, P ^a   Sauerbrei, W ^b  

^a MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Measures of model instability; Resampling; Variable selection; Variable transformation

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 0037470273     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1310     Document Type: Article

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