Predicting in-hospital mortality of patients with AIDS-related pneumocystis carinii pneumonia: An example of hierarchically optimal classification tree analysis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 1997, Pages 1451-1463

  Yarnold, Paul R ^a,b   Soltysik, Robert C ^c   Bennett, Charles L ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Optimal Discriminant Analysis Inc   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030862905     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970715)16:13<1451::AID-SIM571>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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