rpartOrdinal: An R Package for Deriving a Classification Tree for Predicting an Ordinal Response

This paper describes an R package, rpartOrdinal, that implements alternative splitting functions for fitting a classification tree when interest lies in predicting an ordinal response. This includes the generalized Gini impurity function, which was introduced as a method for predicting an ordinal re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kellie J. Archer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2010-10-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
R
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v34/i07/paper