Assessing Discriminative Performance at External Validation of Clinical Prediction Models.

INTRODUCTION:External validation studies are essential to study the generalizability of prediction models. Recently a permutation test, focusing on discrimination as quantified by the c-statistic, was proposed to judge whether a prediction model is transportable to a new setting. We aimed to evaluat...

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Main Authors: Daan Nieboer, Tjeerd van der Ploeg, Ewout W Steyerberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4755533?pdf=render