**Author details**

Amal Saki Malehi\* and Mina Jahangiri Faculty of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

\*Address all correspondence to: amalsaki@gmail.com

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*Classic and Bayesian Tree-Based Methods DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.83380*

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