Multicategory matched learning for estimating optimal individualized treatment rules in observational studies with
Xuqiao Li1, Qiuyan Zhou1, Ying Wu2
1School of Mathematics, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
Abstract:
One primary goal of precision medicine is to estimate the individualized treatment rules that optimize patients' health outcomes based on individual characteristics. Health studies with multiple treatments are commonly seen in practice. However, most existing individualized treatment rule estimation methods were developed for the studies with binary treatments. Many require that the outcomes are fully observed. In this article, we propose a matching-based machine learning method to estimate the optimal individualized treatment rules in observational studies with multiple treatments when the outcomes are fully observed or right-censored. We establish theoretical property for the proposed method. It is compared with the existing competitive methods in simulation studies and a hepatocellular carcinoma study.
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