Calibration: the Achilles heel of predictive analytics

Ben van Calster; David J. McLernon; Maarten van Smeden; Laure Wynants; Ewout W. Steyerberg; Topic Group ‘Evaluating diagnostic tests and prediction models’ of the STRATOS initiative

doi:10.1186/s12916-019-1466-7

Calibration: the Achilles heel of predictive analytics

Ben van Calster^*, David J. McLernon, Maarten van Smeden, Laure Wynants, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Topic Group ‘Evaluating diagnostic tests and prediction models’ of the STRATOS initiative

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Article number	230
Number of pages	7
Journal	BMC Medicine
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1466-7
Publication status	Published - 16 Dec 2019

Keywords

Calibration
Risk prediction models
Predictive analytics
Overfitting
Heterogeneity
Model performance
LOGISTIC-REGRESSION MODELS
OVARIAN-CANCER
VALIDATION
IMPACT
IVF

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Calibration : the Achilles heel of predictive analytics. / van Calster, Ben; McLernon, David J.; van Smeden, Maarten; Wynants, Laure; Steyerberg, Ewout W.; Topic Group ‘Evaluating diagnostic tests and prediction models’ of the STRATOS initiative.

In: BMC Medicine, Vol. 17, No. 1, 230, 16.12.2019.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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