Investigating the effects of ties on measures of concordance

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 4190-4206

  Yan, Guofen ^a   Tom, Greene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C index; C statistic; Model discrimination; Predictive accuracy; Prognostic model

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 50849110819     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3257     Document Type: Article

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