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Willi Sauerbrei

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Traditional reviews, meta-analyses and pooled analyses in epidemiology.

M Blettner, W Sauerbrei, B Schlehofer… - International journal …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND: The use of review articles and meta-analysis has become an important part
of epidemiological research, mainly for reconciling previously conducted studies that have …

[HTML][HTML] A review of spline function procedures in R

A Perperoglou, W Sauerbrei, M Abrahamowicz… - BMC medical research …, 2019 - Springer
Background With progress on both the theoretical and the computational fronts the use of
spline modelling has become an established tool in statistical regression analysis. An …

Reporting recommendations for tumor marker prognostic studies (REMARK): an abridged explanation and elaboration

W Sauerbrei, SE Taube, LM McShane… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Reporting Recommendations for Tumor Marker Prognostic Studies (REMARK)
were developed to address widespread deficiencies in the reporting of such studies. The …

Dichotomizing continuous predictors in multiple regression: a bad idea

P Royston, DG Altman, W Sauerbrei - Statistics in medicine, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
In medical research, continuous variables are often converted into categorical variables by
grouping values into two or more categories. We consider in detail issues pertaining to …

REporting recommendations for tumor MARKer prognostic studies (REMARK)

LM McShane, DG Altman, W Sauerbrei… - Breast cancer research …, 2006 - Springer
Despite years of research and hundreds of reports on tumor markers in oncology, the
number of markers that have emerged as clinically useful is pitifully small. Often initially …

Reporting recommendations for tumor marker prognostic studies (REMARK)

LM McShane, DG Altman, W Sauerbrei… - Journal of the …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Despite years of research and hundreds of reports on tumor markers in oncology, the
number of markers that have emerged as clinically useful is pitifully small. Often, initially …

SYSTEMIC TREATMENT OF EARLY BREAST-CANCER BY HORMONAL, CYTOTOXIC, OR IMMUNE THERAPY-133 RANDOMIZED TRIALS INVOLVING 31000 …

…, BH Mason, JF Forbes, G Bastert, W Sauerbrei… - Lancet, 1992 - biblio.ugent.be
Author O ABE, R ABE, K ASAISHI, K ENOMOTO, T HATTORI, Y INO, K KIKUCHI, H
KOYAMA, K SAWA, J UCHINO, M YOSHIDA, JL HAYBITTLE, T VANDEVELDE, JB …

[BOOK][B] Multivariable model-building: a pragmatic approach to regression anaylsis based on fractional polynomials for modelling continuous variables

P Royston, W Sauerbrei - 2008 - books.google.com
Multivariable regression models are of fundamental importance in all areas of science in
which empirical data must be analyzed. This book proposes a systematic approach to …

The use of fractional polynomials to model continuous risk variables in epidemiology.

P Royston, G Ambler, W Sauerbrei - International journal of …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
BACKGROUND: The traditional method of analysing continuous or ordinal risk factors by
categorization or linear models may be improved. METHODS: We propose an approach …

[HTML][HTML] Reporting recommendations for tumor marker prognostic studies (REMARK): explanation and elaboration

DG Altman, LM McShane, W Sauerbrei, SE Taube - BMC medicine, 2012 - Springer
Abstract Background The Reporting Recommendations for Tumor Marker Prognostic
Studies (REMARK) checklist consists of 20 items to report for published tumor marker …