Why significant variables aren't automatically good predictors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 45, 2015, Pages 13892-13897

  Lo, Adeline ^a   Chernoff, Herman ^b   Zheng, Tian ^c   Lo, Shaw Hwa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIOLOGY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; PRECISION MEDICINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84946762354     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518285112     Document Type: Article

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