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SUBMITTER: Ciarleglio A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5568105 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ciarleglio Adam A Petkova Eva E Tarpey Thaddeus T Ogden R Todd RT
Stat (International Statistical Institute) 20160531 1
A major focus of personalized medicine is on the development of individualized treatment rules. Good decision rules have the potential to significantly advance patient care and reduce the burden of a host of diseases. Statistical methods for developing such rules are progressing rapidly, but few methods have considered the use of pre-treatment functional data to guide in decision-making. Furthermore, those methods that do allow for the incorporation of functional pre-treatment covariates typical ...[more]