A regression tree approach to identifying subgroups with differential treatment effects

In the fight against hard‐to‐treat diseases such as cancer, it is often difficult to discover new treatments that benefit all subjects. For regulatory agency approval, it is more practical to identify subgroups of subjects for whom the treatment has an enhanced effect. Regression trees are natural f...

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Published in:	Statistics in medicine Vol. 34; no. 11; pp. 1818 - 1833
Main Authors:	Loh, Wei-Yin, He, Xu, Man, Michael
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 20.05.2015 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Algorithms bootstrap Chi-Square Distribution Confidence Intervals Humans Medical statistics Medical treatment missing values Models, Statistical Neoplasms - therapy Poisson Distribution proportional hazards Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic Regression Analysis Selection Bias selection bias bootstrap proportional hazards missing values
ISSN:	0277-6715, 1097-0258, 1097-0258
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