Generalized Additive Partial Linear Models (GAPLMs) are appealing for model interpretation and prediction. However, for GAPLMs, the covariates and the degree of smoothing in the nonparametric parts…
In the era of data science, it is common to encounter data with different subsets of variables obtained for different cases. An example is the split questionnaire design (SQD), which is adopted to …
In recent years, many nontraditional classification methods, such as random forest, boosting, and neural network, have been widely used in applications. Their performance is typically measured in t…