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    • Health Informatics
    • Machine Learning
    • Epidemiology

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    • Missing data is prevalent in community health and epidemiological studies, posing challenges for analysis.
    • Traditional methods like data deletion or imputation can reduce sample size, introduce bias, or add noise.
    • Existing data imputation methods have limitations in performance and can negatively impact datasets.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose a novel predictive modeling method using additive least square support vector machine (LS-SVM) to address missing input features.
    • To simultaneously assess the influence of features with missing values on classification accuracy.
    • To evaluate the proposed method's performance in predicting the quality of life (QOL) for community-dwelling elderly individuals.

    Main Methods:

    • Developed a novel method based on additive least square support vector machine (LS-SVM) for predictive modeling with missing data.
    • Employed a fast leave-one-out cross-validation strategy to determine feature influence on classification accuracy.
    • Applied the method to a dataset of 444 community-dwelling elderly people, predicting Quality of Life (QOL) using demographic, socioeconomic, and health assessment data.

    Main Results:

    • The proposed additive LS-SVM method achieved an average QOL prediction accuracy of 0.7418.
    • The novel method demonstrated superior performance compared to case deletion, feature deletion, mean imputation, and K-nearest neighbor imputation.
    • The dataset included 5% to 60% missing data in some input features, highlighting the method's robustness.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed additive LS-SVM method is a promising technique for handling missing data in predictive modeling within community health research.
    • This approach offers an effective alternative to traditional methods, improving accuracy and reducing bias.
    • The findings suggest broader applicability in various research areas facing challenges with incomplete datasets.