RMME/STAT Joint Colloquium

Assessing Personalization in Digital Health

Dr. Susan Murphy
Harvard University

Friday, September 10th, at 12:00PM ET

https://uconn-cmr.webex.com/uconn-cmr/j.php?MTID=m883b79a16b8b2c21038a80da6301cba3

Reinforcement Learning provides an attractive suite of online learning methods for personalizing interventions in Digital Health. However, after a reinforcement learning algorithm has been run in a clinical study, how do we assess whether personalization occurred? We might find users for whom it appears that the algorithm has indeed learned in which contexts the user is more responsive to a particular intervention. But could this have happened completely by chance? I discuss some first approaches to addressing these questions.

 

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