Tree stability diagnostics and some remedies for instability

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 475-491

  Dannegger, Felix ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROGNOSIS; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034728359     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000229)19:4<475::AID-SIM351>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Conference Paper

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