Fan, Juanjuan; Nunn, Martha E.; Su, Xiaogang - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 53 (2009) 4, pp. 1110-1121
This paper is concerned with developing rules for assignment of tooth prognosis based on actual tooth loss in the VA Dental Longitudinal Study. It is also of interest to rank the relative importance of various clinical factors for tooth loss. A multivariate survival tree procedure is proposed....