Useful tests of usefulness of new risk factors: Tools for assessing reclassification and discrimination

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 439-441

  Sundström, Johan ^a   Byberg, Liisa ^a   Gedeborg, Rolf ^a   Michaëlsson, Karl ^a   Berglund, Lars ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision making; discrimination; epidemiology; prediction; risk; risk factor

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79957525438     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494810396556     Document Type: Article

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