Cutpoint selection for categorizing a continuous predictor

Biometrics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 504-509

  O'Brien, Sean M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple changepoint fitting; Optimal categorization; Piecewise constant regression; Regression tree; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

CHANGE-POINTS; CONTINUOUS EXPOSURE; CUT-POINT; MULTIPLE CHANGEPOINT FITTING; NEW APPROACHES; OPTIMAL CATEGORIZATION; PIECE-WISE CONSTANTS; PIECEWISE CONSTANT REGRESSION; REGRESSION TREES; SMOOTHING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

REGRESSION;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CALCULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETER; PREDICTION;

EID: 2942644884     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2004.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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