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The Optimal Machine Learning-Based Missing Data Imputation for the Cox Proportional Hazard Model

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العنوان: The Optimal Machine Learning-Based Missing Data Imputation for the Cox Proportional Hazard Model
المؤلفون: Guo, Chao-Yu, Yang, Ying-Chen, Chen, Yi-Hau
المصدر: Frontiers in Public Health ; volume 9 ; ISSN 2296-2565
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media SA
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Frontiers (Publisher - via CrossRef)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
الوصف: An adequate imputation of missing data would significantly preserve the statistical power and avoid erroneous conclusions. In the era of big data, machine learning is a great tool to infer the missing values. The root means square error (RMSE) and the proportion of falsely classified entries (PFC) are two standard statistics to evaluate imputation accuracy. However, the Cox proportional hazards model using various types requires deliberate study, and the validity under different missing mechanisms is unknown. In this research, we propose supervised and unsupervised imputations and examine four machine learning-based imputation strategies. We conducted a simulation study under various scenarios with several parameters, such as sample size, missing rate, and different missing mechanisms. The results revealed the type-I errors according to different imputation techniques in the survival data. The simulation results show that the non-parametric “missForest” based on the unsupervised imputation is the only robust method without inflated type-I errors under all missing mechanisms. In contrast, other methods are not valid to test when the missing pattern is informative. Statistical analysis, which is improperly conducted, with missing data may lead to erroneous conclusions. This research provides a clear guideline for a valid survival analysis using the Cox proportional hazard model with machine learning-based imputations.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: unknown
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.680054
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.680054/full
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.680054Test
حقوق: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.93FC4CF9
قاعدة البيانات: BASE