Re: [R] how to do an external validation with R

2013-05-18 Thread Frank Harrell
Splitting one dataset into training and test is still internal validation, and it requires an enormous sample size (around 20,000 typically) in order to be competitive with the bootstrap. Note that the Design package has been replaced with rms, and rms has two functions for external validation (va

[R] how to do an external validation with R

2013-05-18 Thread beginner
I would like to do external validation using R software. So far I have used packages like "Design" and "DAAG". However they perform internal validation rather than external one. In order to perform external validation I would have to split my data beforehand into training and test set, leave the te