Adaptive Treatment Strategies in Practice Robert J. McArdle and Kristen M

and Kristen M

and never-ending soap operas

Though they cry out for scientific investigation

not just as actors and directors

Adaptive Treatment Strategies in Practice Robert J. McArdle and Kristen MPersonalized medicine is a medical paradigm that emphasizes systematic use of individual patient information to optimize that patient's health care, particularly in managing chronic conditions and treating cancer. In the statistical literature, sequential decision making is known as an adaptive treatment strategy (ATS) or a dynamic treatment regime (DTR). The field of DTRs emerges at the interface of statistics, machine learning, and biomedical