Classification trees as an alternative to linear discriminant analysis

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-275

  Feldesman, Marc R ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary recursive trees; Discriminant analysis; Missing values imputation; Morphometrics; Multivariate analysis; Open source software; Rpart

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION TREE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; HUMERUS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAN PANISCUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0036838397     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10102     Document Type: Article

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