The effective use of a summary table and decision tree methodology to analyze very large healthcare datasets

Health Care Management Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 163-171

  Sibbritt, David ^a   Gibberd, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

decision trees; summary table; very large datasets

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION TREES; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 4444262949     PISSN: 13869620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:HCMS.0000039379.32963.9e     Document Type: Article

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