Variable importance and prediction methods for longitudinal problems with missing variables.

We present prediction and variable importance (VIM) methods for longitudinal data sets containing continuous and binary exposures subject to missingness. We demonstrate the use of these methods for prognosis of medical outcomes of severe trauma patients, a field in which current medical practice inv...

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Main Authors: Iván Díaz, Alan Hubbard, Anna Decker, Mitchell Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4376910?pdf=render