Subgroup analysis via recursive partitioning

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 141-158

  Su, Xiaogang ^a   Tsai, Chih Ling ^b   Wang, Hansheng ^c   Nickerson, David M ^a   Li, Bogong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Peking University   (China)

^d BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

CART; Interaction; Random forests; Subgroup analysis

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CART; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; IMPORTANCE MEASURES; INTEGRAL PARTS; INTERACTION; RANDOM FORESTS; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; SUBGROUP ANALYSIS; TREATMENT EFFECTS; TREE STRUCTURES;

RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

EID: 61749086397     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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