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  • Biostatistics
  • Personalized Medicine
  • Clinical Trial Design

Background:

  • Dynamic Treatment Regimes (DTRs) personalize treatment based on patient history.
  • The Value of a DTR quantifies expected outcomes in a target population.
  • Estimating DTR Value is complex due to data-dependent and non-smooth properties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Develop a feasible method for valid confidence intervals (CIs) for DTR Value.
  • Address variability not captured by standard statistical inference methods.
  • Provide reliable estimation for data-driven DTRs.

Main Methods:

  • Propose a subsampling-based approach for constructing CIs.
  • Utilize a self-tuning double bootstrap for computational feasibility.
  • Validate the method through simulated experiments.

Main Results:

  • The proposed subsampling method significantly improves CI coverage rates.
  • Demonstrates superior performance compared to the standard bootstrap approach.
  • Offers enhanced accuracy in estimating the Value of an estimated DTR.

Conclusions:

  • Subsampling-based CIs are more effective than standard bootstrap for DTR Value.
  • The method provides a practical tool for statistical inference in personalized medicine.
  • Q-learning was used for DTR estimation, but other methods are applicable.