The short answer is that a Poisson distribution is a discrete
distribution: if that is appropriate to your data the rpart function (in
the package of that name) has a suitable option.
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Solomon Dobrowski wrote:
> Hello all. I have heard over and over that CART and its various
Hello all. I have heard over and over that CART and its various tree-like
brethren are "non-parametric" techniques. When I read the chapter in
Chambers and Hastie on tree-based models it states that tree-based models
can be generalized (GTMs) in a manner similar to GLMs by specifying a
different de
