Comparison of chi-squared automatic interaction detection classification trees vs tnm classification for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 272-279

  Avilés Jurado, F Xavier ^a   Terra, Ximena ^a   Figuerola, Enric ^a   Quer, Miquel ^b   León, Xavier ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CHI-SQUARED AUTOMATIC INTERACTION DETECTION CLASSIFICATION TREES; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858724953     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2011.1448     Document Type: Article

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