Recursive Partitioning in the Health Sciences

by Heping Zhang

1 Introduction.- 2 A Practical Guide to Tree Construction.- 3 Logistic Regression.- 4 Classification Trees for a Binary Response.- 5 Risk-Factor Analysis Using Tree-Based Stratification.- 6 Analysis of Censored Examples.- 7 Analysis of Censored Concepts and Classical Methods.- 8 Analysis of Censored Survival Trees.- 9 Regression Trees and Adaptive Splines for a Continuous Response.- 10 Analysis of Longitudinal Data.- 11 Analysis of Multiple Discrete Responses.- 12 Appendix.- References.

240 pages, Paperback

Published January 21, 2013