title: Logistic regression had superior performance compared with regression trees for predicting in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized with heart failure.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. peter.austin@ices.on.ca
authors.forename: Peter C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Austin
authors.forename: Jack V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Douglas S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000401:mortality*; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D009864:Ontario / Q000453:epidemiology; D012372:ROC Curve; D018570:Risk Assessment