Combining classification trees using MLE

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 727-740

  Shannon, William D ^a   Banks, David ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STATISTICS; CLASSIFICATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY;

CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I; DECISION TREES; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033616844     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990330)18:6<727::AID-SIM61>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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