Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138384477)

Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning is a hands-on book for clinicians, epidemiologists, and professional statisticians who need to make or evaluate a statistical prediction model based on data. The subject of the book is the patient's individualized probability of a medical event within a given time horizon. Gerds and Kattan describe the mathematical details of making and evaluating a statistical prediction model in a highly pedagogical manner while avoiding mathematical notation. Read this book when you are in doubt about whether a Cox regression model predicts better than a random survival forest.

Features:

• All you need to know to correctly make an online risk calculator from scratch
• Discrimination, calibration, and predictive performance with censored data and competing risks
• R-code and illustrative examples
• Interpretation of prediction performance via benchmarks
• Comparison and combination of rival modeling strategies via cross-validation

Thomas A. Gerds is a professor at the Biostatistics Unit at the University of Copenhagen and is affiliated with the Danish Heart Foundation. He is the author of several R-packages on CRAN and has taught statistics courses to non-statisticians for many years.

Michael W. Kattan is a highly cited author and Chair of the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has received two awards from the Society for Medical Decision Making: the Eugene L. Saenger Award for Distinguished Service, and the John M. Eisenberg Award for Practical Application of Medical Decision-Making Research.

Author: Thomas A. Gerds, Michael W. Kattan
ISBN-10: 113838447X
ISBN-13: 9781138384477
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2021
Pages: 290
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d