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Cites two related works on data-driven partitioning, as requested, in the cluster/partition model sections:

  • Zeileis, Hothorn & Hornik 2008, Model-Based Recursive Partitioning (MOB) — doi:10.1198/106186008X319331
  • Hothorn & Zeileis 2015, partykit: A Modular Toolkit for Recursive Partytioning in R — JMLR 16 (manual reference; no DOI)

MOB fits a parametric model, tests its coefficients for instability across candidate splitting variables, and recursively splits on the most unstable one. This makes it a supervised, data-driven way to learn a partition of context space, which is exactly the cluster/partition-model framing in these sections. partykit is its R implementation (with conditional-inference trees and parametric-leaf model-based trees).

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  • content/03.overview.md — "Conditional and Clustered Models": one sentence presenting MOB as a supervised alternative to manually defined conditions and unsupervised clustering for forming groups.
  • content/06.explicit.md — "Piecewise-Constant and Partition-Based Models": two sentences positioning MOB as a tree-structured route that learns split boundaries from parameter instability (complementing the existing total-variation / fused-lasso changepoint mention), with partykit as the implementation.
  • content/manual-references.json — manual entry hothorn2015partykit (JMLR, no DOI).

Builds on the VCVS section merged in #91. Ran the avoid-ai-writing check on both additions (clean).

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…it in cluster/partition sections

Add model-based recursive partitioning (MOB; Zeileis, Hothorn,
Hornik 2008) and the partykit toolkit (Hothorn & Zeileis 2015) as
data-driven ways to learn a partition of context space:

- 03.overview 'Conditional and Clustered Models': MOB as a
  supervised alternative to manual conditions and unsupervised
  clustering for forming groups.
- 06.explicit 'Piecewise-Constant and Partition-Based Models':
  MOB as a tree-structured route that learns split boundaries from
  parameter instability, complementing TV/fused-lasso changepoints;
  partykit as the implementation.
- manual-references.json: manual entry for partykit (JMLR, no DOI).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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