For an always promising transplant prediction, call ANN

Transplantation. 2008 Nov 27;86(10):1349-50. doi: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31818b2417.

Abstract

With apologies to Sherlock Holmes, "You can never foretell when any one man's kidney transplant will fail, but you can say with precision when an average number will fail. ... So says the statistician."

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors
  • Calibration
  • Humans
  • Kidney Transplantation / pathology
  • Kidney Transplantation / physiology*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Nerve Net
  • Polymorphism, Genetic
  • Prognosis
  • Racial Groups
  • Regression Analysis
  • Risk Factors
  • Transplantation / physiology*
  • Treatment Failure
  • Treatment Outcome