How Data Imputation is used part2(Data Engineering)

Abstract: Data imputation is an effective way to handle missing data, which is common in practical applications. In this study, we propose and test a novel data imputation process that achieve two important goals: (1) preserve the row-wise similarities among observations and column-wise contextual relationships among features in the feature matrix, and (2) tailor the imputation process to specific downstream label prediction task. The proposed imputation process uses Transformer network and graph structure learning to iteratively refine the contextual relationships among features and similarities among observations. Moreover, it uses a meta-learning framework to select features that are influential to the downstream prediction task of interest. Abstract: Data collected in clinical trials are often composed of multiple types of variables. For example, laboratory measurements and vital signs are longitudinal data of continuous or categorical variables, adverse events may be recurrent events, and death is a time-to-event variable.