In the genetic study of complex traits, especially behavior related ones, such as smoking and alcoholism, usually several phenotypic measurements are obtained for the description of the complex trait, ...

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A method for fitting piecewise proportional hazards models to censored survival data is described. Stratification is performed recursively, using a combination of statistical tests and residual ...

This paper investigates whether classification and regression trees ensemble algorithms such as bagging, random forests and boosting improve on traditional parametric models for forecasting the equity ...