Model Building as an Educational Hobby

Affiliations

¹ From the Advanced Heart Disease Section, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (L.W.S.); and Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (R.B.D.). lstevenson@partners.org.
² From the Advanced Heart Disease Section, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (L.W.S.); and Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (R.B.D.).

Editorial

Lynne Warner Stevenson et al. Circ Heart Fail. 2016 Aug.

. 2016 Aug;9(8):e003457.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.116.003457.

¹ From the Advanced Heart Disease Section, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (L.W.S.); and Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (R.B.D.). lstevenson@partners.org.
² From the Advanced Heart Disease Section, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (L.W.S.); and Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA (R.B.D.).

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Keywords: Editorials; cardiomyopathy; heart failure; risk assessment; statistical model; uncertainty.

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