Applying Classification and Regression Tree Analysis to Identify Prisoners with High HIV Risk Behaviors

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 447-458

  Frisman, Linda ^a,b   Prendergast, Michael L ^c   Lin, Hsiu Ju ^a,b   Rodis, Eleni ^a,b   Greenwell, Lisa ^c  

^a The Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drugs; HIV; Prisoners; Recursive partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 62849097036     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2008.10400651     Document Type: Article

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