Polychotomization of continuous variables in regression models based on the overall C index

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Tsuruta, Harukazu ^a   Bax, Leon ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROGNOSIS; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846484807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-6-41     Document Type: Article

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