{"title":"Type I Tobit Bayesian Additive Regression Trees for censored outcome regression","authors":"Eoghan O’Neill","doi":"10.1007/s11222-024-10434-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Censoring occurs when an outcome is unobserved beyond some threshold value. Methods that do not account for censoring produce biased predictions of the unobserved outcome. This paper introduces Type I Tobit Bayesian Additive Regression Tree (TOBART-1) models for censored outcomes. Simulation results and real data applications demonstrate that TOBART-1 produces accurate predictions of censored outcomes. TOBART-1 provides posterior intervals for the conditional expectation and other quantities of interest. The error term distribution can have a large impact on the expectation of the censored outcome. Therefore, the error is flexibly modeled as a Dirichlet process mixture of normal distributions. An R package is available at https://github.com/EoghanONeill/TobitBART.\n</p>","PeriodicalId":22058,"journal":{"name":"Statistics and Computing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Statistics and Computing","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11222-024-10434-4","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Censoring occurs when an outcome is unobserved beyond some threshold value. Methods that do not account for censoring produce biased predictions of the unobserved outcome. This paper introduces Type I Tobit Bayesian Additive Regression Tree (TOBART-1) models for censored outcomes. Simulation results and real data applications demonstrate that TOBART-1 produces accurate predictions of censored outcomes. TOBART-1 provides posterior intervals for the conditional expectation and other quantities of interest. The error term distribution can have a large impact on the expectation of the censored outcome. Therefore, the error is flexibly modeled as a Dirichlet process mixture of normal distributions. An R package is available at https://github.com/EoghanONeill/TobitBART.
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Statistics and Computing is a bi-monthly refereed journal which publishes papers covering the range of the interface between the statistical and computing sciences.
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