Dimension reduction for longitudinal multivariate data by optimizing class separation of projected latent Markov models
Dimension reduction for longitudinal multivariate data by optimizing class separation of projected latent Markov models
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DOI:
10.1007/s11749-020-00727-x
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发表时间:
2020-07-24
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1.3
通讯作者:
Viviani, Sara
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作者:
Farcomeni, Alessio;Ranalli, Monia;Viviani, Sara
We present a method for dimension reduction of multivariate longitudinal data, where new variables are assumed to follow a latent Markov model. New variables are obtained as linear combinations of the multivariate outcome as usual. Weights of each linear combination maximize a measure of separation of the latent intercepts, subject to orthogonality constraints. We evaluate our proposal in a simulation study and illustrate it using an EU-level data set on income and living conditions, where dimension reduction leads to an optimal scoring system for material deprivation. An R implementation of our approach can be downloaded from https://github.com/afarcome/LMdim.