Personalized Medicine

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Topics and Objectives

• Conditional Average Treatment Effect (CATE) estimation
• Estimating the optimal treatment rule
• Outcome weighted learning
• Dose-finding problems
• Dynamic treatment rules and backward induction

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Week 10 (Oct 28 and Oct 30)

• Oct 28: [CATE and Optimal Treatment Rules]
• Oct 30: [Outcome Weighted Learning]

Homework 5

• [Homework 5] [Source Code]
• Processed data can be found here
• Original data from Kaggle
• Due Nov 19, 11:59PM CT
• [Solution] (Solution is not unique for open-ended questions. This is merely an example.)

Week 11 (Nov 4 and Nov 6)

• Nov 4: [Dynamic Treatment Regime and Q-Learning]
• Nov 6: [Q-Learning Generalization Error Bound]