A comparison of five recursive partitioning methods to find person subgroups involved in meaningful treatment–subgroup interactions

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 403-425

  Doove, L L ^a   Dusseldorp, E ^a,b   Van Deun, K ^a   Van Mechelen, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Recursive partitioning; Subgroup analysis; Treatment heterogeneity; Treatment subgroup interaction

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

ASSIGNMENT STRATEGIES; CLUSTER INTERACTIONS; OPTIMAL TREATMENT; PERSONALIZED MEDICINES; RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING; SUBGROUP ANALYSIS; TREATMENT HETEROGENEITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84920260494     PISSN: 18625347     EISSN: 18625355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11634-013-0159-x     Document Type: Article

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