Bernadette A. Fausto

Multi‐Level Variable Selection Using a <scp>BART</scp> ‐Enhanced Mixed‐Effects Framework

2026 · Statistics in Medicine

Selecting important individual- and cluster-level predictors has become increasingly critical in healthcare research, where data often exhibit hierarchical structures due to collection from multiple clusters. Mixed-effects models, which account for within-cluster correlation and between-cluster heterogeneity, …