Summary: | The main objective of this study is to explore birth nursing home data using treestructured
regression. A nonparametrica pproacho f tree-structuredr egression
method is implementedin to this data. This approachi s slightly differentf i'om
widely used CART methodologyo f Breiman et al. (19E4,C lassificationa nd
RegressioTn rees,C hapmana nd Hall, New York). Thed ffirencesb etweenth em
are thosei n splilting rules and pruning strategy.C onventionasl plitting rules are
replacedh y rules basedo n log-rank statisticsfo r two sarnplcd ata. Whereasn ew
pruning strategiesa re also devised.F inal resulto f thiss tudyi s to developg roups
af babiesb asedo n covariates. This studyr evealst hat birth wcighl existenceo f
physiologicaml alfunctiond uring nursingh omea nd levelo f cducationo f molher
determineg roups development,
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