Recursive partitioning in the health sciences (Q1290699): Difference between revisions

This book describes the recursive partitioning methodology and demonstrates its effectiveness as a response to the challenge of analyzing and interpreting multiple complex path-ways to many illnesses, diseases, and ultimately death. For comparison purposes, standard regression methods are presented briefly, and they are applied in the examples. The authors emphasize the importance of scientific judgment and interpretation while guided by statistical output. The book is suitable for three groups of readers: (1) Biomedical researchers, clinicians, public health practitioners including epidemiologists, health service researchers, and environmental policy advisors; (2) consulting statisticians who can use the recursive peratitioning technique as a guide in providing effective and insightful solutions to clients' problems; and (3) statisticians interested in methodological and theoretical issues. The book provides an up-to-date summary of the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of recursive partitioning. It also presents a host of unsolved problems whose solutions would advance the rigorous underpinnings of statistics in general.