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- Integrates conceptual and computational treatment of tree representations of complex pathways to important outcomes across diverse scientific applications
- Introduces random and alternative deterministic forests to facilitate interpretability of pathways with many contributing conditions and non-linear relationships
- Illustrates the interplay between scientific judgments and constraints on allowed pathway constructions; comparisons with conventional statistical methods
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Dept. Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA
Heping Zhang
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Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Burton H. Singer
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recursive Partitioning and Applications
Authors: Heping Zhang, Burton H. Singer
Series Title: Springer Series in Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6824-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media LLC 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6823-4Published: 19 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2622-6Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6824-1Published: 01 July 2010
Series ISSN: 0172-7397
Series E-ISSN: 2197-568X
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 262
Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Health Informatics