TY - JOUR AU - Rahman, M. Shafiqur AU - Ambler, Gareth AU - Choodari-Oskooei, Babak AU - Omar, Rumana Z. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/04/18 TI - Review and evaluation of performance measures for survival prediction models in external validation settings JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 60 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - When developing a prediction model for survival data it is essential to validate its performance in external validation settings using appropriate performance measures. Although a number of such measures have been proposed, there is only limited guidance regarding their use in the context of model validation. This paper reviewed and evaluated a wide range of performance measures to provide some guidelines for their use in practice. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0336-2 DO - 10.1186/s12874-017-0336-2 ID - Rahman2017 ER -