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most citedEvaluating tree-based imputation methods as an alternative to MICE PMM for drawing inference in empirical studies

6 citations · 9 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

stat.AP2026

Early Prediction of Student Performance Using Bayesian Updating with Informative Priors Across Cohorts

Jakob Schwerter, Amer Krivosija, Tim Novak +2

Early identification of at risk students in higher education depends on predictive models that maintain accuracy across successive cohorts -- a requirement that single-cohort model…

stat.AP2024

Which Imputation Fits Which Feature Selection Method? A Survey-Based Simulation Study

Jakob Schwerter, Andrés Romero, Florian Dumpert +1

Tree-based learning methods such as Random Forest and XGBoost are still the gold-standard prediction methods for tabular data. Feature importance measures are usually considered fo…

stat.AP2024★ 2 cited

Interpretable Prediction Rule Ensembles in the Presence of Missing Data

Vincent Schroeder, Jakob Schwerter, Marjolein Fokkema +1

Prediction Rule Ensembles (PREs) are robust and interpretable statistical learning techniques with potential for predictive analytics, yet their efficacy in the presence of missing…

stat.AP2024★ 6 cited

Evaluating tree-based imputation methods as an alternative to MICE PMM for drawing inference in empirical studies

Jakob Schwerter, Ketevan Gurtskaia, Andrés Romero +2

Dealing with missing data is an important problem in statistical analysis that is often addressed with imputation procedures. The performance and validity of such methods are of gr…

stat.AP2024★ 1 cited

Adapting tree-based multiple imputation methods for multi-level data? A simulation study

Nico Föge, Jakob Schwerter, Ketevan Gurtskaia +2

When data have a hierarchical structure, such as students nested within classrooms, ignoring dependencies between observations can compromise the validity of imputation procedures.…

econ.GN2022

Do school reforms shape study behavior at university? Evidence from an instructional time reform

Jakob Schwerter, Nicolai Netz, Nicolas Hübner

Early-life environments can have long-lasting developmental effects. Interestingly, research on how school reforms affect later-life study behavior has hardly adopted this perspect…