Pathways to Early Coital Debut for Adolescent Girls: A Recursive Partitioning Analysis
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Subgroup Analysis via Recursive Partitioning
Subgroup analysis is an integral part of comparative analysis where assessing the treatment effect on a response is of central interest. Its goal is to determine the heterogeneity of the treatment effect across subpopulations. In this paper, we adapt the idea of recursive partitioning and introduce an interaction tree (IT) procedure to conduct subgroup analysis. The IT procedure automatically f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Sex Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0022-4499,1559-8519
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2011.565428