Contemporary issues in exploratory data mining in the behavioral sciences - McArdle, John J.; Ritschard, Gilbert (New York Routledge, 2014)
Exploratory data mining using decision trees in the behavioral sciences / John J. McArdle -- CHAID and earlier supervised tree methods / Gilbert Ritschard -- The potential of model-based recursive partitioning in the social sciences : revisiting Ockham's razor / Julia Kopf, Thomas Augustin, and Carolin Strobl -- Exploratory data mining with structural equation model trees / Andreas M. Brandmaier [and others] -- Validating tree descriptions of women's labor participation with deviance-based criteria / Gilbert Ritschard, Fabio B. Losa, and Pau Origoni -- Exploratory data mining algorithms for conducting searches in structural equation modeling : a comparison of some fit criteria / George A. Marcoulides and Walter Leite -- A simulation study of the ability of growth mixture models to uncover growth heterogeneity / Kevin J. Grimm [and others] -- Mining for association between life course domains / Raffaella Piccarreta and Cees H. Elzinga -- Exploratory mining of life event histories / Gilbert Ritschard, Reto Bürgin, and Matthias Studer -- Clinical versus statistical prediction of zygosity in adult twin pairs : an application of classification trees / Carol A. Prescott -- Dealing with longitudinal attrition using logistic regression and decision tree analyses / John J. McArdle -- Adaptive testing of the number series test using standard approaches and a new decision tree analysis approach / John J. McArdle -- Using exploratory data mining to identify academic risk among college student-athletes in the United States / Thomas S. Paskus -- Understanding global perceptions of stress in adulthood through tree-based exploratory data mining / Stacey B. Scott [and others] -- Recursive partitioning to study terminal decline in the Berlin aging study / Paolo Ghisletta -- Predicting mortality from demographics and specific cognitive abilities in the Hawaii family study of cognition / Yan Zhou, Kelly M. Kadlec, and John J. McArdle -- Exploratory analysis of effects of prenatal risk factors on intelligence in children of mothers with phenylketonuria / Keith F. Widaman and Kevin J. Grimm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Social sciences -- Statistical methods; Social sciences -- Research -- Data processing; Data mining -- Social aspects