2015 · 1K citations · 5 references
ComputingBiostatisticsComputational BiologyComputational PhenotypingData StructuresDecision TreesDisease Progression ModelingGini Coefficient AnalysisPartitioningRecursive PartitioningSplit CriteriaTree-based Variable ImportanceVariable Importance Analysis
3 Building the tree 5 3.1 Splitting criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Incorporating losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2.1 Generalized Gini index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2.2 Altered priors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3 Example: Stage C prostate cancer (class method) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4 Variable importance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5
Classification and Regression Trees.
Alexander Gordon, Leo Breiman, Jerome H. Friedman et al. · Biometrics · 1984 · 23.9K citations
Classification and Regression Trees.
John Van Ryzin, Leo Breiman, Jerome H. Friedman et al. · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1986 · 21K citations
Martingale-based residuals for survival models
Terry M. Therneau, Patricia M. Grambsch, T. R. FLEMING · Biometrika · 1990 · 1.1K citations
Relative Risk Trees for Censored Survival Data
Michael LeBlanc, John Crowley · Biometrics · 1992 · 440 citations