Regret-Regression for Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1192-1201

  Henderson, Robin ^a   Ansell, Phil ^a   Alshibani, Deyadeen ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Causal inference; Diagnostics; Dynamic treatment regimes; Path analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; STATISTICS;

ANTI-COAGULATION; CAUSAL INFERENCES; DIAGNOSTIC; DYNAMIC TREATMENT REGIME; DYNAMIC TREATMENTS; MODELS CHECKING; MODELS COMPARISONS; OPTIMAL DOSAGE; OPTIMAL DYNAMICS; PATH ANALYSIS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COAGULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTIMATION METHOD; PATH ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650042610     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01368.x     Document Type: Article

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