Discussion of "A Risk-Based Measure of Time-Varying Prognostic Discrimination for Survival Models," by C. Jason Liang and Patrick J. Heagerty
Published in: Biometrics, 2016
Posted on RAND.org on January 10, 2017
This article discusses a proposed risk-based measure of time-varying discrimination for determining the value of predictors in time-to-event models. The discussion focuses on use of the proposed method to determine the added value of intermediate event information for improving prediction of long-term outcomes and an alternative approach for confidence interval estimation.
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