Assessment of performance of survival prediction models for cancer prognosis

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Cancer survival studies are commonly analyzed using survival-time prediction models for cancer prognosis. A number of different performance metrics are used to ascertain the concordance between the predicted risk score of each patien...

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Main Authors: Chen Hung-Chia, Kodell Ralph L, Cheng Kuang, Chen James J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-07-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/102