Medical Risk Prediction Models: With Ties to Machine Learning (Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series) - Hardcover

Gerds, Thomas A.; Kattan, Michael W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113838447X ISBN 13: 9781138384477

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2021

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 113838447X
• ISBN 13: 9781138384477
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312