An investigation on measures of explained variation in survival analysis
An investigation on measures of explained variation in survival analysis
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生存分析中解释变异测量的调查
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1995
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通讯作者:
M. Schumacher
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作者:
E. Graf;M. Schumacher
Two measures of explained variation for survival data have been proposed by Kom and Simon and by Schemper. In this paper, we demonstrate how these measures compare and work out the conceptual differences between them. Both compare the variance when a covariate is accounted for with the variance when it is ignored, but only the second incorporates differences between observed and fitted outcomes. First, the relationship between both measures is studied for the situation without censoring. It turns out that considering the explained variation as a process in time is helpful in this context as well as in its own right. Censoring is incorporated quite differently for the two measures. We illustrate the points made by examples of fictitious data and a study on the treatment of breast cancer.