A review of tensor-based methods and their application to hospital care data
In many situations, a researcher is interested in the analysis of the scores of a set of observation units on a set of variables. However, in medicine, it is very frequent that the information is replicated at different occasions. The occasions can be time-varying or refer to different conditions. In such cases, the data can be stored in a 3-way array or tensor. The Candecomp/Parafac and Tucker3 methods represent the most common methods for analyzing 3-way tensors.