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Predicting technique survival in peritoneal dialysis patients: comparing artificial neural networks and logistic regression
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 08/28/08

Tangri N et al. - Using UKRR data, both ANN and LR models predicted early PD technique failure with moderate accuracy. In this study, an ANN outperformed an LR-based approach. As the scope and the completeness of the UKRR increases, the question of whether more sophisticated ANN models will perform even better remains for further study.

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