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A Two-Step Algorithm to Estimate Variable Importance for Multi-State Data: An Application to COVID-19
CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences ; 135(3):2047-2064, 2023.
Article in English | Scopus | ID: covidwho-2238483
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Survival data with a multi-state structure are frequently observed in follow-up studies. An analytic approach based on a multi-state model (MSM) should be used in longitudinal health studies in which a patient experiences a sequence of clinical progression events. One main objective in the MSM framework is variable selection, where attempts are made to identify the risk factors associated with the transition hazard rates or probabilities of disease progression. The usual variable selection methods, including stepwise and penalized methods, do not provide information about the importance of variables. In this context, we present a two-step algorithm to evaluate the importance of variables for multi-state data. Three different machine learning approaches (random forest, gradient boosting, and neural network) as the most widely used methods are considered to estimate the variable importance in order to identify the factors affecting disease progression and rank these factors according to their importance. The performance of our proposed methods is validated by simulation and applied to the COVID-19 data set. The results revealed that the proposed two-stage method has promising performance for estimating variable importance. © 2023 Tech Science Press. All rights reserved.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Scopus Language: English Journal: CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences Year: 2023 Document Type: Article