Recursive partitioning to study terminal decline in the Berlin aging study

Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 405-428

  Ghisletta, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203403020     Document Type: Chapter

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