Estimating Individualized Treatment Rules Using Outcome Weighted Learning

A non-parametric approach for fitting personalized treatments to patients

In many diseases, different patients will react differently to different treatments. A drug that is beneficial for some patients may not work for other patients with different characteristics. Therefore, healthcare can significantly improve by treating patients based on their characteristics, rather than treating all patients with the same treatment.

In this article, I will try to show you how we can train a machine-learning model to learn the optimal personalized treatment. …

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