Robust Prediction oft-Year Survival with Data from Multiple Studies

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 436-444

  Cai, Tianxi ^a   Gerds, Thomas A ^b   Zheng, Yingye ^c   Chen, Jinbo ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c USA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Classification; Conditional Kaplan Meier; Meta analysis; Nonparametric maximum likelihood; Predictive values; Prognosis; ROC; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; GENES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

CONDITIONAL KAPLAN-MEIER; KAPLAN-MEIER; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; META-ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NONPARAMETRICS; PREDICTIVE VALUES; PROGNOSE; ROC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CANCER; DATA SET; GENOME; GENOMICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; META-ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; WOMENS HEALTH;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959342048     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01462.x     Document Type: Article

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