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We introduce the basic ideas associated with recursive partitioning in the context of a specific scientific question: Which pregnant women are at the greatest risk of preterm deliveries? Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction between scientific judgment by investigators and the production of informative intermediate-stage computer output that facilitates the generation of the most sensible recursive partitioning trees.
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Zhang, H., Singer, B.H. (2010). A Practical Guide to Tree Construction. In: Recursive Partitioning and Applications. Springer Series in Statistics, vol 0. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6824-1_2
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