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Biomarker discovery using targeted maximum-likelihood estimation: application to the treatment of antiretroviral-resistant HIV infection.
Statistics in medicine - 15 Jan 2009
Bembom Oliver, Petersen Maya L, Rhee Soo-Yon, Fessel W Jeffrey, Sinisi Sandra E, Shafer Robert W, van der Laan Mark J
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Researchers in clinical science and bioinformatics frequently aim to learn which of a set of candidate biomarkers is important in determining a given outcome, and to rank the contributions of the candidates accordingly. This article introduces a new approach to research questions of this type, based on targeted maximum-likelihood estimation of variable importance measures.The methodology is illustrated using an...
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