Evaluating survival model performance: A graphical approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1933-1945

  Mandel, Micha ^a,b,d   Galai, N ^a,c   Simchen, E ^a,b  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Explained variation; ROC curve; Survival model; Time varying effect

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; COVARIANCE; HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

HUMANS; ISRAEL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 21044443951     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2089     Document Type: Article

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