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ArticleStatistics in medicine2026

Missing Value Imputation With Adversarial Random Forests-MissARF.

Pegah Golchian, Jan Kapar, David S Watson, Marvin N Wright

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Adversarial random forests for omics synthesis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Pegah GolchianLeibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany.
Jan KaparLeibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6408-2840
David S WatsonDepartment of Informatics, King's College London, London, UK.
Marvin N WrightLeibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology-BIPS, Bremen, Germany.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 437611051Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 459360854U Bremen Research Alliance/AI Center for Health Care
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Handling missing values is a common challenge in biostatistical analyses, typically addressed by imputation methods. We propose a novel, fast, and easy-to-use imputation method called missing value imputation with adversarial random forests (MissARF), based on generative machine learning, that provides both single and multiple imputation. MissARF employs adversarial random forest (ARF) for density estimation and data synthesis. To impute a missing value of an observation, we condition on the non-missing values and sample from the estimated conditional distribution generated by ARF. Our experiments demonstrate that MissARF performs comparably to state-of-the-art single and multiple imputation methods in terms of imputation quality and fast runtime with no additional costs for multiple imputation.

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Machine LearningAlgorithmsBiostatisticsComputer SimulationData Interpretation, StatisticalHumansModels, StatisticalRandom Forestadversarial learninggenerative modelingmissing datamultiple imputationsingle imputationtree‐based machine learning methods

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PMID41636560
PMCPMC12871009

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