Medical Risk Prediction Models (Paperback)

Thomas A. Gerds

ISBN 10: 0367673738 / ISBN 13: 9780367673734

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, 2022

Beschreibung

Paperback. 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 patients 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. The backbone of medical decision making is prediction. Statistical prediction models can help in medical decision making. This book takes the viewpoint of the single patient and asks what does it mean that a risk prediction model performs well for a single individual? Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780367673734

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Medical Risk Prediction Models (Paperback)
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0367673738
• ISBN-13: 9780367673734
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

Michael 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.