Simple subgroup approximations to optimal treatment regimes from randomized clinical trial data

Biostatistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 368-382

  Foster, Jared C ^a,b   Taylor, Jeremy M G ^a,b   Kaciroti, Niko ^a,b   Nan, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal treatment regimes; Personalized medicine; Subgroup analysis; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRECISION MEDICINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84926625398     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxu049     Document Type: Article

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