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Recursive Partitioning in the Health Sciences /

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This book describes the recursive partitioning methodology and demonstrates its effectiveness as a response to the challenge of analyzing and interpreting multiple complex pathways to many illnesses, diseases, and ultimately death. For comparison purposes, standard regression methods are presented b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zhang, Heping
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Singer, Burton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1999.
Series:Statistics for biology and health.
Subjects:
Statistics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A Practical Guide to the Tree Construction
  • Logistic Regression
  • Classification Trees for a Binary Response
  • Risk Factors Analysis Using Tree-based Stratification
  • Analysis of Censored Data: Examples
  • Analysis of Censored Data: Concepts and Classical Methods
  • Analysis of Censored Data: Survival Trees
  • Continuous Response: Regression Trees and Adaptive Splines
  • Longitudinal Data
  • Multiple Discrete Outcomes.