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ArticleStatistics in medicine2019

Bayesian additive regression trees and the General BART model.

Yaoyuan Vincent Tan, Jason Roy

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Yaoyuan Vincent TanDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey.ORCID 0000-0001-5950-9846
Jason RoyDepartment of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers School of Public Health, Piscataway, New Jersey.

Funding

Non-Parametric Bayesian Methods for Causal InferenceR01GM112327 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI ROY, JASON A · 2014 to 2017
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM112327
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) is a flexible prediction model/machine learning approach that has gained widespread popularity in recent years. As BART becomes more mainstream, there is an increased need for a paper that walks readers through the details of BART, from what it is to why it works. This tutorial is aimed at providing such a resource. In addition to explaining the different components of BART using simple examples, we also discuss a framework, the General BART model that unifies some of the recent BART extensions, including semiparametric models, correlated outcomes, and statistical matching problems in surveys, and models with weaker distributional assumptions. By showing how these models fit into a single framework, we hope to demonstrate a simple way of applying BART to research problems that go beyond the original independent continuous or binary outcomes framework.

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Bayes TheoremMachine LearningRegression AnalysisAlgorithmsHumansBayesian nonparametricsDirichlet process mixturesmachine learningsemiparametric modelsspatial

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PMID31460678
PMCPMC6800811

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