The use of classification and regression trees in clinical epidemiology

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 603-609

  Marshall, Roger J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Classification rules; Clinical epidemiology; Tree based algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DECISION THEORY; MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035023626     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(00)00344-9     Document Type: Article

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