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Tree-structured supervised learning and the genetics of hypertension.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Jul 2004
Huang Jing, Lin Alfred, Narasimhan Balasubramanian, Quertermous Thomas, Hsiung C Agnes, Ho Low-Tone, Grove John S, Olivier Michael, Ranade Koustubh, Risch Neil J, Olshen Richard A
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This paper is about an algorithm, FlexTree, for general supervised learning. It extends the binary tree-structured approach (Classification and Regression Trees, CART) although it differs greatly in its selection and combination of predictors. It is particularly applicable to assessing interactions: gene by gene and gene by environment as they bear on complex disease. One model for predisposition to complex...
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