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most citedReinforcement Learning in Modern Biostatistics: Constructing Optimal Adaptive Interventions

25 citations · 50 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

math.ST2026

Conformal Prediction Intervals with Tail-Specific Guarantees

Simone Cuonzo, Nina Deliu

This paper extends classical conformal frameworks for constructing prediction intervals with global marginal coverage to intervals that provide explicitly calibrated guarante…

cs.LG2025

Conformal bandits: bringing statistical validity and reward efficiency under weak arm separability

Simone Cuonzo, Nina Deliu

We introduce Conformal Bandits, a novel framework integrating Conformal Prediction (CP) into bandit problems, a classic paradigm for sequential decision-making under uncertainty. T…

cs.LG2025

A Personalized Exercise Assistant using Reinforcement Learning (PEARL): Results from a four-arm Randomized-controlled Trial

Amy Armento Lee, Narayan Hegde, Nina Deliu +16

Consistent physical inactivity poses a major global health challenge. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions, particularly Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions (JITAIs), offer a prom…

stat.ME2025

Scalable Generalised Accuracy Estimation for Multisource Register-based Official Statistics

Nina Deliu, Piero Demetrio Falorsi, Stefano Falorsi +2

Official statistics are undergoing a significant transformation, as national statistical institutes transition from traditional single-source data production systems to integrated…

stat.AP2024★ 2 cited

Implementing Response-Adaptive Randomisation in Stratified Rare-disease Trials: Design Challenges and Practical Solutions

Rajenki Das, Nina Deliu, Mark Toshner +1

Although response-adaptive randomisation (RAR) has gained substantial attention in the literature, it still has limited use in clinical trials. Amongst other reasons, the implement…

stat.ML2024★ 1 cited

Artificial Intelligence-based Decision Support Systems for Precision and Digital Health

Nina Deliu, Bibhas Chakraborty

Precision health, increasingly supported by digital technologies, is a domain of research that broadens the paradigm of precision medicine, advancing everyday healthcare. This visi…

stat.ME2024★ 1 cited

A Multivariate Copula-based Bayesian Framework for Doping Detection

Nina Deliu, Brunero Liseo

Doping control is an essential component of anti-doping organizations for protecting clean sports competitions. Since 2009, this mission has been complemented worldwide by the Athl…

stat.ME2024★ 2 cited

Alternative Approaches for Estimating Highest-Density Regions

Nina Deliu, Brunero Liseo

Among the variety of statistical intervals, highest-density regions (HDRs) stand out for their ability to effectively summarize a distribution or sample, unveiling its distinctive…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Thompson sampling for zero-inflated count outcomes with an application to the Drink Less mobile health study

Xueqing Liu, Nina Deliu, Tanujit Chakraborty +2

Mobile health (mHealth) interventions often aim to improve distal outcomes, such as clinical conditions, by optimizing proximal outcomes through just-in-time adaptive interventions…

cs.AI2023★ 10 cited

Using Adaptive Bandit Experiments to Increase and Investigate Engagement in Mental Health

Harsh Kumar, Tong Li, Jiakai Shi +11

Digital mental health (DMH) interventions, such as text-message-based lessons and activities, offer immense potential for accessible mental health support. While these intervention…

stat.ME2022★ 3 cited

Incorporating Participants' Welfare into Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials

Xinru Wang, Nina Deliu, Yusuke Narita +1

Dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) are sequences of decision rules that recommend treatments based on patients' time-varying clinical conditions. The sequential multiple assignment r…

cs.LG2022

Multi-disciplinary fairness considerations in machine learning for clinical trials

Isabel Chien, Nina Deliu, Richard E. Turner +3

While interest in the application of machine learning to improve healthcare has grown tremendously in recent years, a number of barriers prevent deployment in medical practice. A n…

stat.ML2022★ 25 cited

Reinforcement Learning in Modern Biostatistics: Constructing Optimal Adaptive Interventions

Nina Deliu, Joseph Jay Williams, Bibhas Chakraborty

In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has acquired a prominent position in health-related sequential decision-making problems, gaining traction as a valuable tool for delive…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Algorithms for Adaptive Experiments that Trade-off Statistical Analysis with Reward: Combining Uniform Random Assignment and Reward Maximization

Tong Li, Jacob Nogas, Haochen Song +8

Traditional randomized A/B experiments assign arms with uniform random (UR) probability, such as 50/50 assignment to two versions of a website to discover whether one version engag…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Efficient Inference Without Trading-off Regret in Bandits: An Allocation Probability Test for Thompson Sampling

Nina Deliu, Joseph J. Williams, Sofia S. Villar

Using bandit algorithms to conduct adaptive randomised experiments can minimise regret, but it poses major challenges for statistical inference (e.g., biased estimators, inflated t…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Challenges in Statistical Analysis of Data Collected by a Bandit Algorithm: An Empirical Exploration in Applications to Adaptively Randomized Experiments

Joseph Jay Williams, Jacob Nogas, Nina Deliu +4

Multi-armed bandit algorithms have been argued for decades as useful for adaptively randomized experiments. In such experiments, an algorithm varies which arms (e.g. alternative in…