Estimating heterogeneous treatment effect by balancing heterogeneity and fitness

Abstract Background Estimating heterogeneous treatment effect is a fundamental problem in biological and medical applications. Recently, several recursive partitioning methods have been proposed to identify the subgroups that respond differently towards a treatment, and they rely on a fitness criter...

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Main Authors: Weijia Zhang, Thuc Duy Le, Lin Liu, Jiuyong Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:BMC Bioinformatics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12859-018-2521-7