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N3C Machine Learning Working Group - a project to produce machine learning workflows in the N3C Enclave
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implement factor analysis (maybe) #11

Open hannahblau opened 3 years ago

hannahblau commented 3 years ago

following Utilization of Deep Learning for Subphenotype Identification in Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury: Chaudhary et. al apply factor analysis to the features they extract from their autoencoder. They do not explain why factor analysis is necessary/helpful, not clear we want to mimic this step of their paper.