A bayesian regression tree approach to identify the effect of nanoparticles’ properties on toxicity profiles

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 383-401

  Low Kam, Cecile ^a   Telesca, Donatello ^a   Ji, Zhaoxia ^a   Zhang, Haiyuan ^a   Xia, Tian ^a   Zink, Jeffrey I ^a   Nel, Andre E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian CART; Nanotoxicology; P splines; Regression trees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929672775     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-AOAS797     Document Type: Article

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