Using classification and regression trees : a practical primer - Ma, Xin, 1963- (Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Publishing Inc., 2018)
Preface -- Introduction -- Scientific reasoning in the computer age -- Making the case for inductive or data-driven research -- Putting the case in a practical perspective -- Demonstration of CART as an exploratory technique -- Advantages of art -- Notes -- Statistical principles of CART -- Important functions of cart -- Statistical concepts of CART -- Statistical procedures of CART -- Growing the CART tree -- Stopping the cart tree -- Pruning the cart tree -- Notes -- Basic techniques of care -- Statistical techniques of classification trees -- Using costs and priors -- Statistical techniques of regression trees -- Using cost complexity -- Contents -- Using r-squared -- Using surrogates -- Notes -- Issues in cart -- Analysis -- CART versus traditional statistical techniques -- Formulating research questions -- Determining important variables -- Revealing unique variables -- Examining terminal nodes -- Handling missing data -- Determining node size -- Assessing cart performance -- Notes -- Applications of cart -- Operation of CART software programs -- Application 1: Growth in mathematics achievement during middle and high school -- Application 2: Dropping out of advanced mathematics in middle and high school -- Application 3: Science coursework among tenth graders in high school -- Notes -- Advanced techniques of cart -- Extending analytical power of cart -- Concept of hybrid statistical models -- Longitudinal cart analysis -- Multivariate cart analysis -- Multilevel cart analysis -- Cart procedure for meta-analysis -- Concluding statement -- Notes -- References -- A functionally equivalent binary tree -- B common cart software programs -- C spss decision tree syntax -- SPSS decision tree output -- E SPSS decision tree syntax using costs and profits -- F SPSS decision tree syntax using priors -- G SPSS decision tree syntax for drinking and smoking data -- H SPSS decision tree syntax for mental health -- And physical health data -- I SPSS decision tree syntax for cart produce for meta-analysis -- About the author.
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Keywords: Education -- Research -- Statistical methods; Discriminant analysis; Regression analysis; MATHEMATICS -- Applied; MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Regression analysis; Trees (Graph theory); Electronic books