Choice of Prognostic Estimators in Joint Models by Estimating Differences of Expected Conditional Kullback-Leibler Risks

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 380-387

  Commenges, Daniel ^a   Liquet, Benoit ^a   Proust Lima, Cécile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

AIC; Cross entropy; Estimator choice; Joint models; Kullback Leibler risk; Likelihood cross validation; Prognosis; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTIGENS; APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; ENTROPY; RISK PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AIC; CROSS ENTROPY; ESTIMATOR CHOICE; JOINT MODELS; KULLBACK-LEIBLE RISK; KULLBACK-LEIBLER; LIKELIHOOD CROSS-VALIDATION; PROGNOSE; PROSTATE CANCERS; RISK FUNCTION;

UROLOGY;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION ANALYSIS; ENTROPY;

EID: 84862883959     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01753.x     Document Type: Article

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