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Often the scoring rule being evaluated in terms of discriminatory ability is the linear predictor of a survival regression model such as the Cox proportional hazards model. This has the undesirable feature that the scoring rule depends on the censoring distribution when the model is misspecified. In this work, we focus on linear scoring rules where the coefficient vector is a nonparametric estimand defined in the setting where there is no censoring. We propose so-called debiased estimators of the aforementioned discrimination measures for this class of scoring rules. The proposed estimators make efficient use of the data and minimize bias by allowing for the use of data-adaptive methods for model fitting. Moreover, the estimators do not rely on correct specification of the censoring model to produce consistent estimation. 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