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by esens 1612 days ago
Is there any computer-based clustering/analysis you did of the individuals? Sometimes this can reveal a typology of the underlying root causes. Maybe you could see which cluster of symptoms predict others, thus suggesting root causes....
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I am not sure what you mean by "computer-based." We definitely have done various types of analyses: Support vector machines, latent profile analysis, multivariate distance matrix regression, and others. The field as a whole is VERY in-tune with ML, clustering, etc methods...because we need it. Results are somewhat mixed, but this is due to lots of noise in the data, limited samples, and overall copmplexity etc.