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survcomp: an R/Bioconductor package for performance assessment and comparison of survival models

Markus S Schröder et al. Bioinformatics. 2011.

Abstract

The survcomp package provides functions to assess and statistically compare the performance of survival/risk prediction models. It implements state-of-the-art statistics to (i) measure the performance of risk prediction models; (ii) combine these statistical estimates from multiple datasets using a meta-analytical framework; and (iii) statistically compare the performance of competitive models.

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Forestplots representing the prognostic value of (a) NPI, (b) AURKA, (c) GGI and (d) GENIUS estimated by the concordance index in five independent breast cancer datasets [none of these datasets were used to train the classifiers (a)–(c), duplicated patients were removed what results in a combined dataset of 722 patients]. The blue square and horizontal line represent the concordance index and its 95% confidence interval which is clipped at 0.4 and 0.9 (represented by an arrow). The black rhombus is the overall meta-estimate from the combined five datasets. The greater the concordance index, the more prognostic the risk prediction model. The vertical red bar represents the concordance index of random risk predictions.

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