SOFTWARE REVIEW OF CART(TM) FOR WINDOWS, VERSION 3.1

For years, tree-structured analytic methods have appealed to researche rs for many reasons: data mining, exploratory data analysis, and forma tion and testing of non-parametric and parametric models among them. C lassification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis has offered one of t he more efficient and accurate of these methods since it was first pre sented in a 1984 monograph by Leo Breiman, Jerome Freidman, Richard Ol shen, and Charles Stone (Breiman et al., 1984). Until recently, howeve r, only a command-line interface has been available in powerful applic ations of the method, limiting its accessibility to users without the time and support to learn both the method and the command syntax. Now, Salford Systems, in collaboration with the authors of CART, has added a graphical user interface and a several new features to the original FORTRAN source code and produced a Windows version of CART(TM) (v. 3. 1) for the rest of us.