Journal
STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
Volume 23, Issue 16, Pages 2567-2586Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1844
Keywords
logistic regression; validation; updating; shrinkage
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A logistic regression model may be used to provide predictions of outcome for individual patients at another centre than where the model was developed. When empirical data are available from this centre, the validity of predictions can be assessed by comparing observed outcomes and predicted probabilities. Subsequently, the model may be updated to improve predictions for future patients. As an example, we analysed 30-day mortality after acute myocardial infarction in a large data set (GUSTO-I, n=40830). We validated and updated a previously published model from another study (TIMI-II, n=3339) in validation samples ranging from small (200 patients, 14 deaths) to large (10000 patients, 700 deaths). Updated models were tested on independent patients. Updating methods included re-calibration (re-estimation of the intercept or slope of the linear predictor) and more structural model revisions (re-estimation of some or all regression coefficients, model extension with more predictors). We applied heuristic shrinkage approaches in the model revision methods, such that regression coefficients were shrunken towards their re-calibrated values. Parsimonious updating methods were found preferable to more extensive model revisions, which should only be attempted with relatively large validation samples in combination with shrinkage. Copyright (C) 2004 John Wiley Sons, Ltd.
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