Efron-type measures of prediction error for survival analysis

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1283-1287

  Gerds, Thomas A ^a   Schumacher, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Brier score; Prediction error; Probability forecasting; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; ERRORS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NET; BOOTSTRAP; BRIER SCORE; CLASSIFICATION TREES; PREDICTION ERRORS; PROBABILITY FORECASTING; REGRESSION SPLINES; REGRESSION TREES; RESAMPLING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CANCER; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

BOOTSTRAPPING; BREAST CANCER; BRIER SCORE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL;

EID: 34547892291     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00832.x     Document Type: Review

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