The ternary search tree (TST) is the champion of data structure acrobatics — it finds all keys having a given prefix, suffix, or infix. It even finds those keys that closely match a given ...

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The thrust of tree techniques is the extraction of meaningful subgroups characterized by common covariate values and homogeneous outcome. For longitudinal data, this homogeneity can pertain to the ...