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		Gaussian Clinically Informative Visiting and Observation
		Processes in Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data // Fits
		semiparametric joint models for longitudinal electronic health
		record (EHR) data that addresses two-stage hierarchical
		missingness mechanism. The first stage is the visiting process,
		and the second stage is the observation process. The core
		CIMEHR method (Clinical Informative Missingness for Electronic
		Health Records) uses a three-stage procedure: partial
		likelihood with log-normal frailty for visit intensity, probit
		regression with shared latent factor-linked random effects for
		observation, and weighted least squares with risk-set centering
		for the outcome. These three stages are connected through a
		shared latent factor that induces dependence across all three
		processes. A data simulator and implementations of common
		benchmark methods (linear mixed models, multiple imputation,
		and others) are included for comparative studies. Detailed
		methods are described in Yang, Shi, and Mukherjee (2026)
		doi:10.48550/arXiv.2602.15374.
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