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.
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.
"Two of the top researchers in the field of clinical prediction models have produced a highly innovative book that brings a very technical topic to public grasp by throwing out the formulas and just talking straight from the heart of practical experience. While clinicians and medical residents can now learn how to build, diagnose and validate risk models themselves, all public health researchers, old and new, will reap the benefits and enjoyment from reading this book."
~Donna Ankerst, Technical University of Munich
~Donna Ankerst, Technical University of Munich