In the recent literature on estimating heterogeneous treatment effects, each proposed method makes its own set of restrictive assumptions about the intervention’s effects and which subpopulations to explicitly estimate. Moreover, the majority of the literature provides no mechanism to identify which subpopulations are the most affected–beyon...
Creator:
McFowland, Edward (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2018-11-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Patients awaiting cadaveric organ transplantation face a difficult decision if offered a low-quality organ: accept the organ or remain on the waiting list and hope a better organ is offered in the future. A dynamic treatment regime (DTR) for transplantation is a rule that determines whether a patient should decline an offered organ. Existing met...
Creator:
Vock, David (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Created:
2017-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
A treatment regime formalizes personalized medicine as a function from individual patient characteristics to a recommended treatment. A high-quality treatment regime can improve patient outcomes while reducing cost, resource consumption, and treatment burden. Thus, there is tremendous interest in estimating treatment regimes from observational a...
Creator:
Laber, Eric (North Carolina State University)
Created:
2017-09-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
