Ask the Experts: Validating predictive models for colorectal cancer
Collins G.
Gary Collins is a senior medical statistician at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. His main research interests are in the validation of clinical prediction models, and the methodological and design issues in conducting validation studies funded by the UK Medical Research Council. He is also interested in reporting of these studies and is leading a group of prediction modeling experts, clinicians and journal editors to produce a consensus-based guideline to improve the quality of studies reporting the development and validation of prediction models.