Risk Factors Predicting Infectious Lactational Mastitis: Decision Tree Approach versus Logistic Regression Analysis

Maternal and Child Health Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1895-1903

  Fernández, Leónides ^a   Mediano, Pilar ^a   García, Ricardo ^a   Rodríguez, Juan M ^a   Marín, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Lactational mastitis; Logistic regression; Public health; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK EXPRESSION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DECISION TREE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURIES; LACTATION; MASTITIS; NEWBORN; NIPPLE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PUERPERIUM; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK EXPRESSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASTITIS; NIPPLES; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84962855310     PISSN: 10927875     EISSN: 15736628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10995-016-2000-6     Document Type: Article

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