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. 2013 Mar 6;13:33. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-33

Table 4.

Discrimination measures and hazard ratios evaluated in the derivation and validation datasets

Measure
Derivation data
Validation data
  Estimate SE Estimate SE
Harrell c-index
0.673
0.009
0.658
0.016
Gönen & Heller K
0.655
0.008
0.645
0.015
Explained variation (RD2)
0.166
0.017
0.145
0.033
HR: group 2 versus 1
1.58
0.19
1.63
0.35
HR: group 3 versus 1
3.33
0.39
3.34
0.70
HR: group 4 versus 1 4.75 0.60 6.33 1.54

All values are based on the PI of the prognostic model. Risk groups were defined as described in the text. Standard errors (SE) for the c-index and for RD2 were estimated from 200 bootstrap samples. HR = hazard ratio.