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In these settings, values below a certain threshold are not detectable in laboratory analysis and are reported as missing in the dataset. Classical imputation approaches have mostly relied on imputing the same number for all non\u2010detected samples, thus compromising the continuous nature of the censored variables and affecting their variability and potential inclusion in regression modeling. Continuous imputations have been presented, but generally focusing on a single variable at the time. It is common, moreover, for the same human specimen to be used for the quantification of several biomarkers or exposures simultaneously, thus resulting in a complex set of multivariate and possibly correlated left\u2010censored observations. To the best of our knowledge, there is no established framework that flexibly accounts for the real\u2010world complexity of these data. 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