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Article...IEEE...International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies. IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies2016

Multiple- vs Non- or Single-Imputation based Fuzzy Clustering for Incomplete Longitudinal Behavioral Intervention Data.

Zhaoyang Zhang, Hua Fang

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Article in ...IEEE...International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies. IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhaoyang ZhangDivision of Biostatistics and Health Services Research, Department of Quantitative Health Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655.
Hua FangDivision of Biostatistics and Health Services Research, Department of Quantitative Health Science, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655.
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School · US

Funding

University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceUL1TR000161 · NCATS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI LUZURIAGA, KATHERINE F · 2012 to 2015
$11.0M
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCEUL1RR031982 · NCRR · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI SULLIVAN, JOHN LEWIS · 2010 to 2011
$6.8M
DISC: Describe Smoking Cessation in RCT Multi-Component Behavioral InterventionR01DA033323 · NIDA · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI FANG, HUA · 2013 to 2015
$701k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000161NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR031982NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA033323
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disentangling patients' behavioral variations is a critical step for better understanding an intervention's effects on individual outcomes. Missing data commonly exist in longitudinal behavioral intervention studies. Multiple imputation (MI) has been well studied for missing data analyses in the statistical field, however, has not yet been scrutinized for clustering or unsupervised learning, which are important techniques for explaining the heterogeneity of treatment effects. Built upon previous work on MI fuzzy clustering, this paper theoretically, empirically and numerically demonstrate how MI-based approach can reduce the uncertainty of clustering accuracy in comparison to non-and single-imputation based clustering approach. This paper advances our understanding of the utility and strength of multiple-imputation (MI) based fuzzy clustering approach to processing incomplete longitudinal behavioral intervention data.

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Fuzzy clusteringlongitudinal dataMIFuzzyMissing valuesMultiple imputation

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PMID29034067
PMCPMC5635859
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