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48 results for longitudinal studies

Deep neural networks are a family of computational models that have led to a dramatical improvement of the state of the art in several domains such as image, voice or text analysis. These methods provide a framework to model complex, non-linear interactions in large datasets, and are naturally suited to the analysis of…

2018-02-09abs ↗pdf ↗

While studying response trajectory, often the population of interest may be diverse enough to exist distinct subgroups within it and the longitudinal change in response may not be uniform in these subgroups. That is, the timeslope and/or influence of covariates in longitudinal profile may vary among these different sub…

2013-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian Causal Forests model assesses part-time work's impact on student growth.

problem Estimating causal effects of part-time work on student growth in mathematics achievement.
method Longitudinal Bayesian Causal Forests model combining non-parametric and difference-in-differences methods.
result Negative impact of part-time work for most students, potential benefits for those with low school belonging, widening achievement gap identified.

TransformerLSR models longitudinal, recurrent, and survival data jointly.

problem Joint modeling of longitudinal measurements, recurrent events, and survival data with dependencies.
method Transformer-based deep learning framework integrating deep temporal point processes and latent structure representation.
result TransformerLSR effectively models all three components simultaneously, demonstrating necessity and effectiveness through simulations and real-world data.

A tutorial on various methods for clustering longitudinal data.

problem Identifying groups with different trends in longitudinal data.
method Group-based trajectory modeling, growth mixture modeling, longitudinal k-means.
result Strengths, limitations, and model extensions of the methods are discussed.

New method calibrates asynchronous, error-prone covariates for longitudinal data.

problem Estimation biases and slow convergence in analyzing time-varying covariates with measurement error.
method Functional calibration approach based on functional principal component analysis.
result Asymptotically unbiased and consistent estimators for time-invariant coefficients; optimal convergence rate for time-varying coefficients.

Proposes Deep LTMLE for estimating dynamic treatment effects in longitudinal studies.

problem Estimating counterfactual mean outcomes under dynamic treatment policies in longitudinal settings.
method Uses a transformer architecture with temporal-difference learning for initial estimation, followed by TMLE correction and statistical inference.
result Demonstrates superior performance in complex, long-term scenarios compared to existing methods.

LPCI provides valid prediction intervals for longitudinal data.

problem Current conformal prediction methods for time series data lack cross-sectional coverage when applied to longitudinal datasets.
method Modeling residual data as a quantile fixed-effects regression problem, constructing prediction intervals with a trained quantile regressor.
result LPCI achieves valid cross-sectional coverage and outperforms existing benchmarks in terms of longitudinal coverage rates.

New method for analyzing multiple longitudinal data processes.

problem Exploring associations between multiple random processes observed jointly.
method Functional Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis (FGCCA) based on multiblock Regularized Generalized Canonical Correlation Analysis (RGCCA).
result FGCCA framework is robust to sparsely and irregularly observed data.

Proposes a method for valid inference in GPLSIMs with longitudinal data.

problem Challenges in longitudinal data inference due to within-subject correlation and unstable variance estimation.
method Profile estimating-equation approach using spline approximation and block empirical likelihood.
result Block empirical likelihood ratio statistic with Wilks-type chi-square limit for joint inference.

Study compares neural and statistical models for Parkinson's disease progression from voice data.

problem Difficult statistical analysis of longitudinal voice biomarkers due to subject correlation, small cohorts, and varied disease trajectories.
method Evaluated Neural Mixed Effects (NME), Generalized Neural Network Mixed Models (GNMMs), and semi-parametric Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMMs).
result GAMMs achieve stronger predictive performance and retain interpretable smooth effects and subject-level structure.

HPPCA improves imputation of longitudinal data with missing values.

problem Handling incomplete, high-dimensional longitudinal data with nested sources of variation and temporal dependency.
method Hierarchical probabilistic principal component analysis (HPPCA) with a two-level latent factor model and Gaussian process.
result HPPCA outperforms standard PPCA and multivariate functional PCA in imputation accuracy, even under heavy missingness and model misspecification.

Develops a deep survival model for causal inference in longitudinal studies.

problem Estimating treatment effects on time-to-event outcomes in observational studies with time-dependent covariates.
method TCS model using potential outcomes framework and ensemble of recurrent subnetworks.
result Identifies conditional average treatment effects and individual treatment effect heterogeneity over time.

Proposes a neural network for dynamic risk prediction of AMD using longitudinal fundus images.

problem Dynamic risk prediction for progressive eye disorders like AMD.
method tdCoxSNN, a time-dependent Cox survival neural network integrating CNN.
result Demonstrates commendable predictive performance in AMD and PBC datasets.

Study compares traditional and machine learning methods for handling missing data in longitudinal studies.

problem Handling missing Not at Random (MNAR) and nonnormal data in longitudinal research.
method Monte Carlo simulations to assess six missing data techniques.
result FIML is most effective for MNAR data, while TSRE excels for MAR data.

New method models longitudinal data using variational inference and normalizing flows.

problem Handling high-dimensional longitudinal data with time dependency.
method Variational inference with normalizing flows for latent variables.
result The method achieves better likelihood estimates and more reliable missing data imputation.

Pipeline integrates cross-sectional and longitudinal multi-omics data for IBD research.

problem Integrating diverse data types from the same individuals for disease understanding.
method Statistical and deep learning methods for variable selection, feature extraction, and joint integration.
result Identified microbial pathways, metabolites, and genes discriminating IBD status.

Joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data are commonly used in longitudinal studies to forecast disease trajectories over time. While there are many advantages to joint modeling, the standard forms suffer from limitations that arise from a fixed model specification, and computational difficulties when applie…

2018-03-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A Longitudinal Attribute-Conditioned Neural Network (LANTERN) framework for modeling health-state transition probabilities in irregular longitudinal data.

problem Estimating long-term care transition probabilities in irregular longitudinal health data.
method A neural network that learns from individual health history, incorporates time elapsed, and conditions on demographic and socioeconomic attributes.
result Improves severe disability discrimination and maintains strong calibration.

Efficient Bayesian LMM framework for high-dimensional longitudinal data.

problem Scalability and dependence in high-dimensional longitudinal data.
method Partitioned empirical Bayes ECM algorithm for scalable MAP estimation.
result Identification of genes and clinical factors associated with a lupus biomarker.

DynForest predicts event probabilities from longitudinal data, handling endogenous predictors.

problem Predicting individual risk using longitudinal patient history.
method Random survival forests with time-fixed features from longitudinal predictors.
result DynForest provides accurate individual event probability predictions.

Automates kernel discovery for longitudinal data analysis.

problem Handling irregularly sampled, sparse longitudinal data with multilevel correlation.
method Combines deep neural networks and non-parametric kernel methods to discover complex multilevel correlation structure.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark data sets.

CausalLongPFN predicts counterfactual outcomes from time-series data.

problem Predicting future outcomes under varying treatments in time-series data with confounding and heterogeneity.
method Prior-fitted network pretrained on synthetic episodes of temporal structural causal models.
result CausalLongPFN outperforms domain-trained models on factual and counterfactual prediction tasks.

HL-VAE extends VAE for heterogeneous temporal and longitudinal data.

problem Handling heterogeneous data in temporal and longitudinal datasets.
method Proposes HL-VAE, an extension of existing VAEs for temporal and longitudinal data, incorporating likelihood models for various data types.
result HL-VAE achieves competitive performance in missing value imputation and predictive accuracy.

Novel framework predicts brain biomarker trajectories with superior performance.

problem Challenges in estimating longitudinal brain biomarker trajectories due to variability, inconsistencies, and irregular measurements.
method Personalized deep kernel regression with Adaptive Shrinkage Estimation.
result Superior predictive performance compared to state-of-the-art models.

Develops privacy-preserving methods for longitudinal linear regression.

problem Protecting individual information in longitudinal data with privacy-preserving statistics.
method Proposes a user-level private regression estimator and a privatized covariance estimator for longitudinal linear regression under user-level differential privacy.
result Establishes theoretical guarantees for practical user-level differential privacy estimation and inference in longitudinal linear regression.

Develops new algorithms for QRF to handle mixed-frequency and longitudinal data.

problem Handling mixed-frequency and longitudinal data in quantile regression.
method Mixed-Frequency Quantile Regression Forest (MIDAS-QRF) and Finite Mixture Quantile Regression Forest (FM-QRF).
result Valid and flexible models for complex empirical settings in financial risk management and climate-change impact evaluation.

Joint Models for longitudinal and time-to-event data have gained a lot of attention in the last few years as they are a helpful technique to approach common a data structure in clinical studies where longitudinal outcomes are recorded alongside event times. Those two processes are often linked and the two outcomes shou…

2016-09-09abs ↗pdf ↗

CDM models counterfactual outcomes in longitudinal data with improved accuracy.

problem Predicting counterfactual outcomes in longitudinal data with complex time-dependent confounding.
method Causal Diffusion Model (CDM) using denoising diffusion architecture with relational self-attention.
result CDM outperforms state-of-the-art methods in generating full probabilistic distributions of counterfactual outcomes.

Finite mixture models have become a popular tool for clustering. Amongst other uses, they have been applied for clustering longitudinal data and clustering high-dimensional data. In the latter case, a latent Gaussian mixture model is sometimes used. Although there has been much work on clustering using latent variables…

2018-04-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformers simplify modeling of small longitudinal cohort data by reducing parameters and incorporating attention mechanisms.

problem Challenges in modeling longitudinal cohort data due to complex temporal dependencies and large dataset requirements.
method Simplified transformer architecture with attention mechanism, autoregressive model, and kernel-based temporal decay.
result The approach recovers contextual dependencies even with small datasets, identifying temporal patterns in stress and mental health.

Develops algorithm to find subgroups with different treatment effects in HIV patients.

problem Estimating treatment effects in EHR data with challenges like time-varying confounding.
method SDLD algorithm combining generalized interaction tree and longitudinal targeted maximum likelihood estimation.
result Identifies subgroups of HIV patients at higher risk of weight gain with dolutegravir-containing ARTs.