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SUBMITTER: Lampa E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4120739 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lampa Erik E Lind Lars L Lind P Monica PM Bornefalk-Hermansson Anna A
Environmental health : a global access science source 20140704
<h4>Background</h4>There is a need to evaluate complex interaction effects on human health, such as those induced by mixtures of environmental contaminants. The usual approach is to formulate an additive statistical model and check for departures using product terms between the variables of interest. In this paper, we present an approach to search for interaction effects among several variables using boosted regression trees.<h4>Methods</h4>We simulate a continuous outcome from real data on 27 e ...[more]