arxivstat.MEcs.LGstat.ML2026-07-23
Longitudinal Random Forests for Sparse and Irregular Response Trajectories
Yangsheng Wang, Xiaotian Dai, Haoda Fu, Guifang Fu
Longitudinal studies often collect data at sparse, irregular, and unequally spaced time points. Such heterogeneity is often driven by subject-specific covariates, yet existing methods have been restricted to a scalar endpoint value, completely neglecting the underlying response t…