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Newest firstBackgroundThe Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study(R) offers rich longitudinal data on environmental, genetic, and other factors related to substance use initiation. Classical marginal structural models (MSMs) require choosing which covariates to include in propensity models, but this choice is difficult in the presence of hundreds of correlated predictors. MethodsWe analyzed longitudinal data from…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundEarly initiation of substance use is linked to later adverse outcomes, and risk factors come from multiple domains and are shared across substances. In our previous work, traditional time-to-event Cox models identified individual risk factors, but these models are not designed to jointly model multiple outcomes or capture complex non-linear relationships. Multi-task learning (MTL) can leverage shared str…
Open article record in new tab ↗Adolescence is a developmental period characterised by increased vulnerability to cannabis use disorder (CUD). However, previous investigations of this vulnerability have relied on cross-sectional comparisons and lack a detailed assessment of cannabis quantity, a potentially important confounding factor. Here, we aimed to investigate the one-year course of CUD in adolescents compared to adults who currently use ca…