Advantages and Disadvantages
Compared to other multivariable methods, recursive partitioning has advantages and disadvantages.
- Advantages are:
- Generates clinically more intuitive models that do not require the user to perform calculations.
- Allows varying prioritizing of missclassifications in order to create a decision rule that has more sensitivity or specificity.
- May be more accurate.
- Disadvantages are:
- Does not work well for continuous variables
- May overfit data.
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