Investigation on the improvement of prediction by bootstrap model averaging

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-50

  Holländer, Norbert ^a,c   Augustin, N H ^b   Sauerbrei, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bootstrap model averaging; Model uncertainty; Prediction; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BODY FAT; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCREENING; SIMULATION; BODY COMPOSITION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

BODY COMPOSITION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 33645746619     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634035     Document Type: Article

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