The Cox proportional hazards model has been used extensively in medicine over the last 40 years. A popular application is to develop a multivariable prediction model, often a prognostic model to predict the clinical outcome of patients with a particular disorder from "baseline" factors measured...

Royston (2014, Stata Journal 14: 738–755) explained how a popular application of the Cox proportional hazards model "is to develop a multivariable prediction model, often a prognostic model to predict the future clinical outcome of patients with a particular disorder from 'baseline' factors...