Fig. 3From: Coupling sparse Cox models with clustering of longitudinal transcriptomics data for trauma prognosisExample of the imputation methods applied in the study. Four examples of how Last Observation Carried Forward (LOCF), Next Observation Carried Backwards (NOCB), and linear interpolation are performed (Algorithm 1). The selected time points \(T=\{T_{q}\}_{q=1}^{Q}\) are shaded in green and the arrows illustrate the imputation procedureBack to article page