Greedy outcome weighted tree learning of optimal personalized treatment rules

Biometrics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 391-400

  Zhu, Ruoqing ^a   Zhao, Ying Qi ^b   Chen, Guanhua ^c   Ma, Shuangge ^d   Zhao, Hongyu ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

High dimensional data; Optimal treatment rules; Personalized medicine; Reinforcement learning trees; Survival analysis; Tree based method

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; CELL CULTURE; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA; IDENTIFICATION APPROACH; OPTIMAL TREATMENT; OPTIMAL TREATMENT RULE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINES; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING TREE; REINFORCEMENT LEARNINGS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREE-BASED METHODS; WEIGHTED TREE;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; IDENTIFICATION KEY; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; HUMAN; PERIODONTICS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PERIODONTICS;

EID: 84994875692     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12593     Document Type: Article

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