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.
Read more about this topic: Recursive Partitioning
Famous quotes containing the word advantages:
“If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic circle would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)