Concussion Risk Between Individual Football Players: Survival Analysis of Recurrent Events and Non-events.

We describe an approach for selecting an optimal cumulative distribution function to model risk between subjects by minimizing injury prediction error. We illustrate that small differences in distribution fit can result in large predictive errors. Given the vast amounts of on-field data researchers are collecting across sports, this approach can be applied to develop population-specific risk curves that can ultimately inform interventions that reduce concussion incidence.
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Source: Annals of Biomedical Engineering - October 28, 2020 Category: Biomedical Engineering Authors: Rowson S, Campolettano ET, Duma SM, Stemper B, Shah A, Harezlak J, Riggen L, Mihalik JP, Brooks A, Cameron KL, Svoboda SJ, Houston MN, McAllister T, Broglio S, McCrea M Tags: Ann Biomed Eng Source Type: research