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Missing data is a common concern in health datasets, and its impact on good decision-making processes is well documented. Our study's contribution is a methodology for tackling missing data problems using a combination of synthetic dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Gift Khangamwa , Terence L. van Zyl , Clint J. van Alten

Design and analysis of cluster randomized trials must take into account correlation among outcomes from the same clusters. When applying standard generalized estimating equations (GEE), the first-order (e.g. treatment) effects can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-18 Tom Chen , Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen , Rui Wang

Real-world multi-view data often exhibit highly inconsistent missing patterns, posing significant challenges for incomplete multi-view clustering (IMVC). Although existing IMVC methods have made progress from both imputation-based and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jie Xu , Wenyuan Yang , Yazhou Ren , Lifang He , Philip S. Yu , Xiaofeng Zhu

The problem of missing data, usually absent incurated and competition-standard datasets, is an unfortunate reality for most machine learning models used in industry applications. Recent work has focused on understanding the nature and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Spyridon Mouselinos , Kyriakos Polymenakos , Antonis Nikitakis , Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos

Real-world Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are often plagued by a high rate of missing data. In our EHRs, for example, the missing rates can be as high as 90% for some features, with an average missing rate of around 70% across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ge Gao , Farzaneh Khoshnevisan , Min Chi

Incomplete Multi-view Clustering (IMC) has emerged as a significant challenge in multi-view learning. A predominant line for IMC is data imputation; however, indiscriminate imputation can result in unreliable content. Recently, researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Cai Xu , Jinlong Liu , Yilin Zhang , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Xiaofei He

The analysis of randomized trials is often complicated by the occurrence of intercurrent events and missing values. Even though there are different strategies to address missing values it is still common to require missing values…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-11 A. Ruiz de Villa , Ll. Badiella

Existing statistical methods for the analysis of micro-randomized trials (MRTs) are designed to estimate causal excursion effects using data from a single MRT. In practice, however, researchers can often find previous MRTs that employ…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-13 Easton Huch , Inbal Nahum-Shani , Lindsey Potter , Cho Lam , David W. Wetter , Walter Dempsey

In randomized controlled trials, adjusting for baseline covariates is often applied to improve the precision of treatment effect estimation. However, missingness in covariates is common. Recently, Zhao & Ding (2022) studied two simple…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-28 Yilin Song , James P. Hughes , Ting Ye

Cluster-randomized trials (CRTs) are widely used to evaluate group-level interventions and increasingly collect multiple outcomes capturing complementary dimensions of benefit and risk. Investigators often seek a single global summary of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-22 Xinyuan Chen , Fan Li

This paper proposes a new framework of algorithmic recourse (AR) that works even in the presence of missing values. AR aims to provide a recourse action for altering the undesired prediction result given by a classifier. Existing AR methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Kentaro Kanamori , Takuya Takagi , Ken Kobayashi , Yuichi Ike

Maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) are asymptotically normally distributed, and this property is used in meta-analyses to test the heterogeneity of estimates, either for a single cluster or for several sub-groups. More recently, MLEs for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Anthony J. Webster

Healthcare decision-making often requires selecting among treatment options under budget constraints, particularly when one option is more effective but also more costly. Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) provides a framework for evaluating…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-07-29 Jonas Esser , Mateus Maia , Judith Bosmans , Johanna van Dongen

We propose and analyze a method for computing failure probabilities of systems modeled as numerical deterministic models (e.g., PDEs) with uncertain input data. A failure occurs when a functional of the solution to the model is below (or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Daniel Elfverson , Fredrik Hellman , Axel Målqvist

The problem of missing values in multivariable time series is a key challenge in many applications such as clinical data mining. Although many imputation methods show their effectiveness in many applications, few of them are designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Ye Xue , Diego Klabjan , Yuan Luo

Missing values often limit the usage of data analysis or cause falsification of results. Therefore, methods of missing value imputation (MVI) are of great significance. However, in general, there is no universal, fair MVI method for…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Valerie Restat , Kai Tejkl , Uta Störl

Presence of missing values in a dataset can adversely affect the performance of a classifier. Single and Multiple Imputation are normally performed to fill in the missing values. In this paper, we present several variants of combining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Shehroz S. Khan , Amir Ahmad , Alex Mihailidis

Motivation: Clustering is a frequently used concept in variety of bioinformatical applications. We present a new method for hierarchical clustering of data called mutual information clustering (MIC) algorithm. It uses mutual information…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Alexander Kraskov , Harald Stögbauer , Ralph G. Andrzejak , Peter Grassberger

Missing values challenge data analysis because many supervised and unsupervised learning methods cannot be applied directly to incomplete data. Matrix completion based on low-rank assumptions are very powerful solution for dealing with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-30 Aude Sportisse , Claire Boyer , Julie Josse

Missing values are a fundamental problem in data science. Many datasets have missing values that must be properly handled because the way missing values are treated can have large impact on the resulting machine learning model. In medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zhi Chen , Sarah Tan , Urszula Chajewska , Cynthia Rudin , Rich Caruana