2 papers
stat.ML2019
The Medical Deconfounder: Assessing Treatment Effects with Electronic Health Records
Linying Zhang, Yixin Wang, Anna Ostropolets +3
The treatment effects of medications play a key role in guiding medical prescriptions. They are usually assessed with randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which are expensive. Rece…
cs.LG2018
Evaluating Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Observational Health Settings
Omer Gottesman, Fredrik Johansson, Joshua Meier +16
Much attention has been devoted recently to the development of machine learning algorithms with the goal of improving treatment policies in healthcare. Reinforcement learning (RL)…