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A Two-Step Algorithm to Estimate Variable Importance for Multi-State Data: An Application to COVID-19

Behnaz Alafchi¹, Leili Tapak^1,*, Hassan Doosti², Christophe Chesneau³, Ghodratollah Roshanaei¹

1 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Modeling of Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran
2 School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
3 Department of Mathematics, LMNO, University of Caen-Normandie, Caen, France

* Corresponding Author: Leili Tapak. Email: