Covariate adjustment of spirometric and smoking phenotypes: The potential of neural network models.

To increase power and minimize bias in statistical analyses, quantitative outcomes are often adjusted for precision and confounding variables using standard regression approaches. The outcome is modeled as a linear function of the precision variables and confounders; however, for many complex phenot...

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Main Authors: Kirsten Voorhies, Ruofan Bie, John E Hokanson, Scott T Weiss, Ann Chen Wu, Julian Hecker, Georg Hahn, Dawn L Demeo, Edwin Silverman, Michael H Cho, Christoph Lange, Sharon M Lutz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266752