Recursive Partitioning and Applications

• Main Authors: Zhang, Heping. (Author), Singer, Burton H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Edition: Second.
• Series: Springer Series in Statistics,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6824-1

The routes to many important outcomes including diseases and ultimately death as well as financial credit consist of multiple complex pathways containing interrelated events and conditions. We have historically lacked effective methodologies for identifying these pathways and their non-linear and in...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A Practical Guide to Tree Construction
• Logistic Regression
• Classification Trees for a Binary Response
• Examples Using Tree-Based Analysis
• Random and Deterministic Forests
• Analysis of Censored Data: Examples
• Analysis of Censored Data: Concepts and Classical Methods
• Analysis of Censored Data: Survival Trees and Random Forests
• Regression Trees and Adaptive Splines for a Continuous Response
• Analysis of Longitudinal Data
• Analysis of Multiple Discrete Responses.