Recursive Partitioning in the Health Sciences

✍ Scribed by Heping Zhang, Burton Singer (auth.)

Publisher: Springer New York
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 228
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
A Practical Guide to Tree Construction....Pages 7-19
Logistic Regression....Pages 21-27
Classification Trees for a Binary Response....Pages 29-59
Risk-Factor Analysis Using Tree-Based Stratification....Pages 61-69
Analysis of Censored Data: Examples....Pages 71-77
Analysis of Censored Data: Concepts and Classical Methods....Pages 79-92
Analysis of Censored Data: Survival Trees....Pages 93-103
Regression Trees and Adaptive Splines for a Continuous Response....Pages 105-135
Analysis of Longitudinal Data....Pages 137-172
Analysis of Multiple Discrete Responses....Pages 173-199
Appendix....Pages 201-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-226

✦ Subjects

Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences

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