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Evaluating Binary Splits On Nominal Inputs, Isaac Xoese Ocloo
Evaluating Binary Splits On Nominal Inputs, Isaac Xoese Ocloo
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The maximally selected statistic approach in building tree models is shown to be a cause of variable selection bias. In this study we propose three methods to solve this problem in building regression trees with nominal predictor variables. Out of the three methods
proposed we explored only two in detail and defer one for further research. We developed an exact method to compute the p-value corresponding to the maximized splitting statistic in regression trees for nominal predictor variables with at most 10 distinct levels and a
method to estimate the best cutoff point as a parameter in a parametric nonlinear …