PDF⋙ Recursive Partitioning and Applications (Springer Series in Statistics) by Heping Zhang, Burton Singer
Recursive Partitioning and Applications (Springer Series in Statistics) by Heping Zhang, Burton Singer Recursive Partitioning and Applications (Springer Series in Statistics) by Heping Zhang, Burton Singer PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad Multiple complex pathways, characterized by interrelated events and c- ditions, represent routes to many illnesses, diseases, and ultimately death. Although there are substantial data and plausibility arguments suppo- ing many conditions as contributory components of pathways to illness and disease end points, we have, historically, lacked an e?ective method- ogy for identifying the structure of the full pathways. Regression methods, with strong linearity assumptions and data-basedconstraints onthe extent and order of interaction terms, have traditionally been the strategies of choice for relating outcomes to potentially complex explanatory pathways. However, nonlinear relationships among candidate explanatory variables are a generic feature that must be deal