Chunk #8 — Scope of This Work

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An introduction to recursive partitioning: rationale, application, and characteristics of classification and regression trees, bagging, and random forests.

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Luellen, Shadish, and Clark (2005) explore another field of application in comparing the effects in an experimental and a quasi-experimental study on mathematics and vocabulary performance: When the treatment assignment is chosen as a working response, classification trees and ensemble methods can be used to estimate propensity scores.