Researcher: Malahlane Komane, University of Limpopo
Supervisor: Dr Alphonce Bere, University of Venda

The study uses a recursive partitioning approach. To investigate the age at first marriage for women living in South Africa. There are well known methods of recursive partitioning which includes CART and random forest. The aim of the research is to construct a discrete survival tree for the identification of determinants of age at first marriage for SA women.