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Retrospective Cohort Study
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World J Gastrointest Surg. Nov 27, 2026; 18(11): 123786
Published online Nov 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.123786
Table 1 Cohort partition and analytical role
Cohort
Patients (n)
Events (n)
Non-events (n)
Event rate (%)
Analytical role
Overall analytic cohort3008221827.3Source population for development and internal validation
Development cohort2115815327.5Repeated nested-CV pipeline comparison and selection; full-development fitting of the selected pipeline; OOF threshold derivation
Validation cohort89246527.0Untouched until one-time evaluation of the locked model and threshold


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