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Will they stay or will they go?

Predicting disenrollment from home care services to nursing homes using classification trees

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Noe, D.A., Nelson, I.M., Mehdizadeh, S. et al. Will they stay or will they go?. CHANCE 22, 58 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00144-009-0046-6

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