Confidence sets for split points in decision trees

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 543-574

  Banerjee, Moulinath ^a   McKeague, Ian W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

CART; Change point estimation; Cube root asymptotics; Empirical processes; Logistic regression; Nonparametric regression; Poisson regression; Split point

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749141698     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053606000001415     Document Type: Article

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