Personalizing Mobile Health Interventions

• Activity Number: 446 - Prediction vs. Inference in Personalized Medicine
• Type: Invited
• Date/Time: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
• Sponsor: Mental Health Statistics Section
• Author(s): Susan A Murphy*
• Companies: University of Michigan
• Keywords: causal inference ; dynamic treatment regimes ; treatment policies ; Mobile Health ; machine learning

Abstract

A critical question in the development of mobile health interventions is, when and in which contexts, is it most useful to deliver intervention content to the user. Here we provide a method to address this question. The method involves combining causal inference and reinforcement learning.