partykit: A modular toolkit for recursive partytioning in R

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The R package partykit provides a flexible toolkit for learning, representing, summarizing, and visualizing a wide range of tree-structured regression and classification models. The functionality encompasses: (a) basic infrastructure for representing trees (inferred by any algorithm) so that unified print/plot/predict methods are available; (b) dedicated methods for trees with constant fits in the leaves (or terminal nodes) along with suitable coercion functions to create such trees (e.g., by rpart, RWeka, PMML); (c) a reimplementation of conditional inference trees (ctree, originally provided in the party package); (d) an extended reimplementation of model-based recursive partitioning (mob, also originally in party) along with dedicated methods for trees with parametric models in the leaves. Here, a brief overview of the package and its design is given while more detailed discussions of items (a)

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Papers in Economics and Statistics ; No. 2014-10

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General ; Neural Networks and Related Topics ; Econometric Software
• Subject: recursive partitioning ; regression trees ; classification trees ; statistical learning ; (d) are available in vignettes accompanying the package.

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hothorn, Torsten ; Zeileis, Achim
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon)
• (where): Innsbruck
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/101073
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET