Scoring and staging systems using Cox linear regression modeling and recursive partitioning

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-43

  Lee, J W ^a   Um, S H ^b   Lee, J B ^a   Mun, J ^c   Cho, Hyungjun ^d  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c University of Wisconsin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Censored survival data; Child Turcotte Pugh; Cross validation; Free structured method; Local linear model

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; LIVER DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33645742492     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634034     Document Type: Article

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