[R] CART analysis

[Marc R. Feldesman]

--- Adaikalavan Ramasamy <ramasamy at cancer.org.uk> wrote:

> RSiteSearch("CART") should bring up a few hits including 
> 
>   http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/25850.html
> 

"CART" is a trademarked statistical procedure owned by Salford Systems
of San Diego, CA.  If you're looking for an R-package that implements
the procedures described in the Breiman, Friedman, Olshen, and Stone
book entitled "Classification and Regression Trees", the closest you
can come to the original algorithm is the R-package called "rpart", by
Therneau and Atkinson.  If you combine that with Andy Liaw's
"randomForest", you have a pretty potent set of tools.  If you really
want "CART", you need to contact Salford Systems for their
implementation and pay their very expensive licensing fees.

Dr. Marc R Feldesman
Professor & Chair Emeritus
Department of Anthropology
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97207

Please respond to all emails at:  feldesmanm at pdx.edu

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