Consistent estimation of the expected brier score in general survival models with right-censored event times

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1029-1040

  Gerds, Thomas A ^a   Schumacher, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brier score; Censoring bias; Inverse of probability of censoring weighting; Model validation; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BRIER SCORE; CENSORED DATA; CENSORING BIAS; CONSISTENT ESTIMATION; COVARIATES; INVERSE OF PROBABILITY OF CENSORING WEIGHTING; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MODEL VALIDATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL MODEL;

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

EID: 33846223169     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200610301     Document Type: Article

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