Local applicability of clinical and model-based probability estimates

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 678-680

  Steyerberg, Ewout W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LETTER; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROBABILITY;

EID: 27944435264     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X05282645     Document Type: Letter

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