Podcast Episode on Research Methods: Classification Tree Analysis
The February 2013 episode of the Police Integrity Lost podcast features Phil Stinson (Bowling Green State University) and Steve Brewer (Penn State – Shenango) discussing their use of classification tree analysis (also called “decision tree” analysis) techniques as part of their predictive analytic statistical procedures in the study of police crime. Classification tree analysis is used as a statistical technique to uncover the causal pathways between independent predictors and an outcome (dependent) variable of interest in a regression model.
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