Other resources

Richard Riley et al edited an accessible text book on prognosis research with a website 

Ewout Steyerberg provided a more extensive text book on prediction modeling, with a website

Patrick Royston and Willi Sauerbrei provided a guide to model building with fractional polynomials with an extensive website

Frank Harrell's classic text; up-to-date discussions at his blog "Statistical Thinking"

Another classic text relevant to prediction modeling