Optimal dynamic treatment methods

REVSTAT-Statistical Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-36

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

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Bandit problems; Causal inference; Diagnostics; Regret functions; Wild bootstrap

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955453490     PISSN: 16456726     EISSN: 21830371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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