Boosting the concordance index for survival data--a unified framework to derive and evaluate biomarker combinations.

The development of molecular signatures for the prediction of time-to-event outcomes is a methodologically challenging task in bioinformatics and biostatistics. Although there are numerous approaches for the derivation of marker combinations and their evaluation, the underlying methodology often suf...

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Main Authors: Andreas Mayr, Matthias Schmid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3882229?pdf=render