Type of pre-existing chronic conditions and their associations with Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) treatment: Prediction and interpretation using machine learning methods

• Yves Paul Vincent Mbous ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ypm0001@mix.wvu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy, School of Pharmacy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6642-1073

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• Zasim Azhar Siddiqui,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy, School of Pharmacy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

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• Murtuza Bharmal,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation AstraZeneca, Oncology, Outcomes Research, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Traci LeMasters,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy, School of Pharmacy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA, OPEN Health, Evidence and Access, Real World Evidence, New York, United States of America

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• Joanna Kolodney,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

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• George A. Kelley,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, School of Public and Population Health, Boise State University, Boise, IDIdaho, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0595-4148

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• Khalid Kamal,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy, School of Pharmacy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

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• Usha Sambamoorthi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy, School of Pharmacy, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA, Department of Pharmacotherapy, College of Pharmacy, University of North Texas Health Sciences Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

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