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  • Machine Learning in Healthcare
  • Data Mining

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  • Current methods inadequately address correlations within multivariate outcomes.

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  • To develop novel goodness-of-split measures for multivariate regression trees.
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  • To enhance prediction accuracy through ensemble methods.

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  • Proposed two approaches: minimizing within-node homogeneity and maximizing between-node separation.
  • Utilized Mahalanobis distance, determinant of variance-covariance matrix, Euclidean distance, and standardized Euclidean distance for split measures.
  • Extended single trees to ensembles of multivariate trees for improved prediction.

Main Results:

  • Developed and evaluated new goodness-of-split measures for multivariate regression.
  • Simulations demonstrated the properties of the proposed measures.
  • Methods were successfully applied to clinical datasets in neuropathy and pediatric cardiac surgery.

Conclusions:

  • The new methods provide a robust framework for analyzing correlated multivariate outcomes in biomedical studies.
  • The proposed techniques enhance the utility of tree-based methods in complex health data analysis.
  • Ensemble multivariate regression trees show promise for improving predictive accuracy in clinical research.