BMC Medicine· 2019Q1

Calibration: the Achilles heel of predictive analytics

On behalf of Topic Group ‘Evaluating diagnostic tests and prediction models’ of the STRATOS initiative, Ben Van Calster, David J. McLernon, Maarten van Smeden et al.

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2019year

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Poorly calibrated risk prediction models, common in clinical decision-making, can be misleading and harmful, necessitating immediate attention to calibration during development and validation.

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Field: Health Informatics

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