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Decision trees are widely used in econo-/sociometry for decision analysis of real world problems. It is little used in clinical research.

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  1. Department Medicine, Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Sliedrecht, The Netherlands

    Ton J. Cleophas

  2. Department Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Aeilko H. Zwinderman

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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H. (2013). Decision Trees. In: Machine Learning in Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7869-6_14

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