Lotus: An algorithm for building accurate and comprehensible logistic regression trees

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 826-852

  Chan, Kin Yee ^a   Loh, Wei Yin ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Piecewise linear logistic regression; Recursive partitioning; Trend adjusted chi square test; Unbiased variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244354640     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186004X13064     Document Type: Article

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