Extending the elements of tree-structured regression
- 1 September 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Statistical Methods in Medical Research
- Vol. 4 (3) , 219-236
- https://doi.org/10.1177/096228029500400304
Abstract
The usage of tree-structured or recursive partitioning methods has grown steadily in the decade since the appearance of the definitive monograph 'Classification and Regression Trees'. 1 Accompanying this growth have been many methodologic and software extensions that have served to give the tree-structured approach even wider applicability. This overview highlights some of these developments, emphasizing the regression setting. An illustrative example describes how tree-structured regression, modified to handle right-censored, left-truncated survival data with time-dependent covariates, can be used to assess whether rates of progression from HIV to AIDS have changed over time.Keywords
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