Towards evidence-based computational statistics: lessons from clinical research on the role and design of real-data benchmark studies

Abstract Background The goal of medical research is to develop interventions that are in some sense superior, with respect to patient outcome, to interventions currently in use. Similarly, the goal of research in methodological computational statistics is to develop data analysis tools that are them...

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Main Authors: Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Rory Wilson, Alexander Hapfelmeier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-017-0417-2