Evaluation of alternative model selection criteria in the analysis of unimodal response curves using CART

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 685-698

  Ribic, Christine A ^a   Miller, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHOD; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032435146     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664769822909     Document Type: Article

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