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Factors associated with performing tuberculosis screening of HIV-positive patients in Ghana: LASSO-based predictor selection in a large public health data set

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to propose the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operators procedure (LASSO) as an alternative to conventional variable selection models, as it allows for easy interpretation and handles multicollinearities. We developed a model on the basis of LASSO-sel...

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Autores principales: Mueller-Using, Susanne, Feldt, Torsten, Sarfo, Fred Stephen, Eberhardt, Kirsten Alexandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27412114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3239-y