Purpose To build a decision tree for patients suspected of having prostate cancer using classification and regression tree (CART) analysis. Patients and Methods Data were uniformly collected on 1,433 ...

Course TopicsClassification and regression tree (CART) methods are a class of data mining techniques which constitute an alternative approach to classical regression. CART methods are frequently used ...

We evaluated four statistical models-Regression Tree Analysis (RTA), Bagging Trees (BT), Random Forests (RF), and Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS)-for predictive vegetation mapping ...

Wilfried Thuiller, , Sandra Lavorel, Generalized Models vs. Classification Tree Analysis: Predicting Spatial Distributions of Plant Species at Different Scales ...

The second approach involved using Salford Systems' Classification and Regression Tree (CART) software. 21,22 CART analysis is a nonparametric technique ideally suited to identify patterns or ...