On this page we provide links to some of the latest methodology research articles in prognosis and prediction research.

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2022

• Calculating the power to examine treatment-covariate interactions when planning an individual participant data meta-analysis of randomized trials with a binary outcome (PDF)

• Validation of prediction models in presence of competing risks: a guide through modern methods (PDF)

• How to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of prognostic model studies (PDF)

• Minimum sample size calculations for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a time-to-event outcome (PDF)

• Methodological conduct of prognostic prediction models developed using machine learning in oncology: a systematic review (PDF)

• Completeness of reporting of clinical prediction models developed using supervised machine learning: a systematic review (PDF)

• GRADE concept paper 2: Concepts for judging certainty on the calibration of prognostic models in a body of validation studies (PDF)

• Performance of binary prediction models in high-correlation low-dimensional settings: a comparison of methods (PDF)
• Risk prediction models for discrete ordinal outcomes: Calibration and the impact of the proportional odds assumption (PDF)
• The harm of class imbalance corrections for risk prediction models: illustration and simulation using logistic regression (PDF)
• Guidelines and quality criteria for artificial intelligence-based prediction models in healthcare: a scoping review (PDF)
• Assessing performance and clinical usefulness in prediction models with survival outcomes: practical guidance for Cox proportional hazards models (PDF)
• Individual-specific networks for prediction modelling–A scoping review of methods (PDF)
• Accuracy of approximations to recover incompletely reported logistic regression models depended on other available information (PDF)
• Estimation of the Absolute Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Other Events: Issues With the Use of Multiple Fine-Gray Subdistribution Hazard Models (PDF)
• Investigating treatment-effect modification by a continuous covariate in IPD meta-analysis: an approach using fractional polynomials (PDF)

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2021

• Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis: A Handbook for Healthcare Research (new textbook) - details here

• Lessons learnt when accounting for competing events in the external validation of time-to-event prognostic models (PDF)

• To tune or not to tune, a case study of ridge logistic regression in small or sparse datasets (PDF)

• Developing clinical prediction models when adhering to minimum sample size recommendations: The importance of quantifying bootstrap variability in tuning parameters and predictive performance (PDF)

• Developing more generalizable prediction models from pooled studies and large clustered data sets (PDF)

• A tutorial on individualized treatment effect prediction from randomized trials with a binary endpoint (PDF)

• Minimum sample size for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a binary outcome (PDF)

• Estimation of required sample size for external validation of risk models for binary outcomes (PDF)

• External validation of clinical prediction models: simulation-based sample size calculations were more reliable ... (PDF)

• A note on estimating the Cox‐Snell R2 from a reported C statistic (AUROC) to inform sample size calculations for developing a prediction model with a binary outcome (PDF)

• Clinical prediction models to predict the risk of multiple binary outcomes: a comparison of approaches (PDF)

• Adaptive sample size determination for the development of clinical prediction models (PDF)

• Clinical prediction models: diagnosis versus prognosis (PDF)

• IPD meta‐analysis for external validation, recalibration, and updating of a flexible parametric prognostic model (PDF)

• Penalization and shrinkage methods produced unreliable clinical prediction models especially when sample size was small  (PDF) 

• Sample sizes of prediction model studies in prostate cancer were rarely justified and often insufficient (PDF)

• A two‐stage prediction model for heterogeneous effects of treatments (PDF)

• Prediction or causality? A scoping review of their conflation within current observational research (PDF)

• Fine‐Gray subdistribution hazard models to simultaneously estimate the absolute risk of different event types: Cumulative total failure probability may exceed 1 (PDF)

• A scoping review of causal methods enabling predictions under hypothetical interventions (PDF)

• Impact of sample size on the stability of risk scores from clinical prediction models: a case study in cardiovascular disease (PDF)

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2020

• Minimum sample size for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a continuous outcome (PDF)

• Calculating the sample size required for developing a clinical prediction model (PDF)

• Regression shrinkage methods for clinical prediction models do not guarantee improved performance (PDF)

• IPD meta‐analysis to examine interactions between treatment effect and participant‐level covariates (PDF)

• Temporal recalibration for improving prognostic model development and risk predictions ... (PDF)

• Use of GRADE for the assessment of evidence about prognostic factors: rating certainty in identification of groups of patients with different absolute risks (PDF)

• Meta-analysis of continuous outcomes: using pseudo IPD created from aggregate data to adjust for baseline imbalance and assess treatment-by-baseline modification (PDF)

• Prediction meets causal inference: the role of treatment in clinical prediction models (PDF)

• State of the art in selection of variables and functional forms in multivariable analysis—outstanding issues (PDF)

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