License: Licence agreement concerning inclusion of doctoral thesis in the Institutional Repository of the University of LeidenAnalysis of Clinical Data • November 16th, 2022
Contract Type FiledNovember 16th, 2022This thesis focused on statistical analyses aimed at improving clinical trial design on behalf of the European Or- ganisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group (EORTC - STBSG) and on investigating the potential of survival prediction models with machine learning techniques compared with sta- tistical models. Sarcoma and non-sarcoma clinical data were used to compare the performance of the different prediction models. Results were presented in two different parts.