Tree-based methods and a mixed ridge estimator for analyzing longitudinal data with correlated predictors

Due to recent advances in technology that facilitate acquisition of multi-parameter defined phenotypes, new opportunities have arisen for predicting patient outcomes based on individual specific cell subset changes. The data resulting from these trials can be a challenge to analyze, as predictors ma...

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Main Author: Eliot, Melissa
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2011
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3482618