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We investigate the problem of calibration and assessment of predictive rules in prognostic designs when missing values are present in the predictors. Our paper has two key objectives which are entwined. The first is to investigate how the…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-12 B. J. A. Mertens , E. Banzato , L. C. de Wreede

We consider multi-class classification problems for high dimensional data. Following the idea of reduced-rank linear discriminant analysis (LDA), we introduce a new dimension reduction tool with a flavor of supervised principal component…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-03-28 Yue Selena Niu , Ning Hao , Bin Dong

Deep Learning (DL) methods have dramatically increased in popularity in recent years, with significant growth in their application to supervised learning problems in the biomedical sciences. However, the greater prevalence and complexity of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-30 David K Lim , Naim U Rashid , Junier B Oliva , Joseph G Ibrahim

This paper aims to develop an optimality theory for linear discriminant analysis in the high-dimensional setting. A data-driven and tuning free classification rule, which is based on an adaptive constrained $\ell_1$ minimization approach,…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-04-10 T. Tony Cai , Linjun Zhang

The standard quantile regression model assumes a linear relationship at the quantile of interest and that all variables are observed. We relax these assumptions by considering a partial linear model while allowing for missing linear…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-07 Ben Sherwood

Most practical data science problems encounter missing data. A wide variety of solutions exist, each with strengths and weaknesses that depend upon the missingness-generating process. Here we develop a theoretical framework for training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jahan C. Penny-Dimri , Christoph Bergmeir , Julian Smith

We consider building predictors when the data have missing values. We study the seemingly-simple case where the target to predict is a linear function of the fully-observed data and we show that, in the presence of missing values, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Marine Le Morvan , Nicolas Prost , Julie Josse , Erwan Scornet , Gaël Varoquaux

Missing data theory deals with the statistical methods in the occurrence of missing data. Missing data occurs when some values are not stored or observed for variables of interest. However, most of the statistical theory assumes that data…

Imputation methods for dealing with incomplete data typically assume that the missingness mechanism is at random (MAR). These methods can also be applied to missing not at random (MNAR) situations, where the user specifies some adjustment…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-24 Shahab Jolani , Stef van Buuren

Classifying samples in incomplete datasets is a common aim for machine learning practitioners, but is non-trivial. Missing data is found in most real-world datasets and these missing values are typically imputed using established methods,…

The performance of machine learning and pattern recognition algorithms generally depends on data representation. That is why, much of the current effort in performing machine learning algorithms goes into the design of preprocessing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Fadi Dornaika , Ahmad Khoder , Abdelmalik Moujahid , Wassim Khoder

In many machine learning applications, we are faced with incomplete datasets. In the literature, missing data imputation techniques have been mostly concerned with filling missing values. However, the existence of missing values is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Mohammad Kachuee , Kimmo Karkkainen , Orpaz Goldstein , Sajad Darabi , Majid Sarrafzadeh

Researchers in the behavioral and social sciences use linear discriminant analysis (LDA) for predictions of group membership (classification) and for identifying the variables most relevant to group separation among a set of continuous…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-28 Ricarda Graf , Marina Zeldovich , Sarah Friedrich

In order to predict and fill in the gaps in categorical datasets, this research looked into the use of machine learning algorithms. The emphasis was on ensemble models constructed using the Error Correction Output Codes framework, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Muhammad Ishaq , Sana Zahir , Laila Iftikhar , Mohammad Farhad Bulbul , Seungmin Rho , Mi Young Lee

Classification is an important tool with many useful applications. Among the many classification methods, Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a traditional model-based approach which makes use of the covariance information.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-09-21 Qiyi Lu , Xingye Qiao

In many social, economical, biological and medical studies, one objective is to classify a subject into one of several classes based on a set of variables observed from the subject. Because the probability distribution of the variables is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-19 Jun Shao , Yazhen Wang , Xinwei Deng , Sijian Wang

Data imputation is a cornerstone technique for handling missing values in real-world datasets, which are often plagued by missingness. Despite recent progress, prior studies on Large Language Models-based imputation remain limited by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Arthur Dantas Mangussi , Ricardo Cardoso Pereira , Ana Carolina Lorena , Pedro Henriques Abreu

We study high-dimensional regression with missing entries in the covariates. A common strategy in practice is to \emph{impute} the missing entries with an appropriate substitute and then implement a standard statistical procedure acting as…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Kabir Aladin Chandrasekher , Ahmed El Alaoui , Andrea Montanari

In this paper, prediction for linear systems with missing information is investigated. New methods are introduced to improve the Mean Squared Error (MSE) on the test set in comparison to state-of-the-art methods, through appropriate tuning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-04 Mohammad Amin Fakharian , Ashkan Esmaeili , Farokh Marvasti

The goal of positive-unlabeled (PU) learning is to train a binary classifier on the basis of training data containing positive and unlabeled instances, where unlabeled observations can belong either to the positive class or to the negative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-02 Paweł Teisseyre , Konrad Furmańczyk , Jan Mielniczuk