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SUBMITTER: Schulte PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4300556 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schulte Phillip J PJ Tsiatis Anastasios A AA Laber Eric B EB Davidian Marie M
Statistical science : a review journal of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 20141101 4
In clinical practice, physicians make a series of treatment decisions over the course of a patient's disease based on his/her baseline and evolving characteristics. A dynamic treatment regime is a set of sequential decision rules that operationalizes this process. Each rule corresponds to a decision point and dictates the next treatment action based on the accrued information. Using existing data, a key goal is estimating the optimal regime, that, if followed by the patient population, would yie ...[more]