Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Healthcare"
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Essays in the Economics of Health Care and the Regulation of Medical Technology
(2014-06-06)The first chapter of this dissertation explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. While prior studies of medical innovation under regulation have found an early mover ... -
Identification and Characterization of Post-Merger Pharmaceutical Innovation
(2021-06-17)With increases in both pharmaceutical transactions and innovation metrics in the 21st century, as well as the emergence of headline therapies such as CRISPR and regenerative medicine, a question arises: are transactions ... -
Off-Policy Evaluation of Reinforcement Learning in Healthcare
(2020-08-10)Reinforcement learning is a method for learning optimal strategies for tasks which require making sequences of decisions. The ability to make decisions in a manner which balances short versus long term outcomes makes ... -
Reinforcement Learning for Healthcare: From Model Development to Deployment
(2023-01-23)Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a subfield of Machine Learning (ML) focuses on how agents learn to make optimal decisions over time to achieve particular goals. Given its emphasis on sequential decision-making, RL is amenable ... -
What's Missing from Machine Learning for Medicine? New Methods for Causal Effect Estimation and Representation Learning from EHR Data
(2023-05-09)This thesis explores the applications of deep learning in clinical and epidemiologic data analysis, focusing on neural networks for causal effect estimation and clinical risk prediction. I claim that neural networks have ...