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Activity Number:
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105
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Monday, July 30, 2012 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Learning and Data Mining
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Abstract - #303585 |
Title:
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New Reinforcement Learning Methodology for Personalized Medicine
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Author(s):
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Michael Kosorok*+
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Companies:
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Address:
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3101 McGavran-Greenberg Hall, CB 7420, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
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Keywords:
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dynamic treatment regimes ;
personalized medicine ;
reinforcement learning ;
machine learning ;
Q-learning ;
A-learning
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Abstract:
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Finding individualized dynamic treatment regimes is a fundamentally important challenge in personalized medicine research. Reinforcement learning is a primary statistical learning tool used in this setting, with Q-learning and A-learning being the most common forms of reinforcement learning. We propose an alternative form of reinforcement learning which yields dramatically improved performance for high dimensional training data arising from randomized clinical studies. We prove consistency, derive rates of convergence, and compare with alternative approaches using several revealing numerical studies.
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