A Robust Method for Estimating Optimal Treatment Regimes

DOI10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01763.xzbMath1258.62116WikidataQ36567700 ScholiaQ36567700MaRDI QIDQ4911921

Eric B. Laber, Anastasios A. Tsiatis, Marie Davidian, Baqun Zhang

Publication date: 20 March 2013

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://europepmc.org/articles/pmc3556998

zbMATH Keywords

potential outcomes; personalized medicine; inverse probability weighting; propensity score; doubly robust estimator; outcome regression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

92C50: Medical applications (general)

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Uses Software

• rgenoud

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