Tree-Structured Mixed-Effects Regression Modeling for Longitudinal Data
- Authors
- Eo, Soo-Heang; Cho, HyungJun
- Issue Date
- 9월-2014
- Publisher
- AMER STATISTICAL ASSOC
- Keywords
- Mixed-effects model; Recursive partitioning; Regression tree
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS, v.23, no.3, pp.740 - 760
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS
- Volume
- 23
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 740
- End Page
- 760
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/97571
- DOI
- 10.1080/10618600.2013.794732
- ISSN
- 1061-8600
- Abstract
- Tree-structured models have been widely used because they function as interpretable prediction models that offer easy data visualization. A number of tree algorithms have been developed for univariate response data and can be extended to analyze multivariate response data. We propose a tree algorithm by combining the merits of a tree-based model and a mixed-effects model for longitudinal data. We alleviate variable selection bias through residual analysis, which is used to solve problems that exhaustive search approaches suffer from, such as undue preference to split variables with more possible splits, expensive computational cost, and end-cut preference. Most importantly, our tree algorithm discovers trends over time on each of the subspaces from recursive partitioning, while other tree algorithms predict responses. We investigate the performance of our algorithm with both simulation and real data studies. We also develop an R package melt that can be used conveniently and freely. Additional results are provided as online supplementary material.
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