An empirical comparison of expert-derived and data-derived classification trees

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 157-169

  Chiogna, M ^a   Spiegelhalter, D J ^b   Franklin, R C G ^c   Bull, K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030069303     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19960130)15:2<157::AID-SIM149>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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