Comparison between splines and fractional polynomials for multivariable model building with continuous covariates: A simulation study with continuous response

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2262-2277

  Binder, Harald ^a,b   Sauerbrei, Willi ^b   Royston, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continuous covariates; Fractional polynomials; Model selection; Nonlinear effects; Simulation; Splines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATEGORICAL COVARIATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINUOUS COVARIATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EXPLANATORY MODEL; INFORMATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MODEL; MULTIVARIABLE FRACTIONAL POLYNOMIAL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; SPLINE; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84877615796     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5639     Document Type: Article

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