Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 63, Issue 10 , Pages 1145-1155 , October 2010

Logistic regression had superior performance compared with regression trees for predicting in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized with heart failure

  • Peter C. Austin

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Management, Policy and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, G1 06, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4N 3M5, Canada. Tel.: +416-480-6131; fax: +416-480-6048.
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  • Jack V. Tu

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Health Management, Policy and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Schulich Heart Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Douglas S. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

,Accepted 22 December 2009.

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PII: S0895-4356(09)00389-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.12.004

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 63, Issue 10 , Pages 1145-1155 , October 2010

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