Unbiased Recursive Partitioning: A Conditional Inference Framework

Recursive binary partitioning is a popular tool for regression analysis. Two fundamental problems of exhaustive search procedures usually applied to fit such models have been known for a long time: Overfitting and a selection bias towards covariates with many possible splits or missing values. While...

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Main Authors: Hothorn, Torsten, Hornik, Kurt, Zeileis, Achim
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Institut für Statistik und Mathematik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business 2004
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Online Access:http://epub.wu.ac.at/676/1/document.pdf