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Breast Cancer Screening
Recursive partitioning may help design programs to promote regular mammograms
February 9th, 2006
Recursive partitioning may help design interventions to promote mammagraphy screening adherence. "Although a number of predictors of adherence to mammography screening guidelines have been identified using traditional statistical methods, many women are not screening according to these guidelines. Recursive partitioning may aid in developing novel intervention strategies to promote this screening behavior by identifying subgroups of women that differ on adherence across predictor variables," proposed scientists at Yale University. L. Calvocoressi and colleagues reported, "In a prospective study of 1,229 African-American and White women in Connecticut...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-02-09)
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