Chunk #148 — Discussion and Conclusion

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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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Besides the applications to regression and classification problems covered here, the function cforest (Hothorn et al. 2008, 2006) used in the application example can even be applied to survival data with a censored response and can thus serve as a means of data exploration in a broad range of longitudinal studies, too.