Estimation of prediction error for survival models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 262-274

  Lawless, Jerald F ^a   Yuan, Yan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absolute error; Confidence intervals; Expected loss; Inverse probability of censoring weights; Misspecified models; Survival time predictors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; HUMAN; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL TIME;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 74749109668     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3758     Document Type: Article

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