3 accepted papers
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for comparing the effectiveness of a new treatment to the current one (the control). Most RCTs allocate the patients to the treatment group and the control group by uniform randomization. We show that this procedure can be highly sub-optima…
Hospitals are increasingly utilizing business intelligence and analytics tools to mine electronic health data to uncover inefficiencies in care delivery (e.g., slow turnaround times, high readmission rates). Given that the expertise and experience of healthcare providers may vary significantly, an a…
Standard Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) problems assume that the arms are independent. However, in many application scenarios, the information obtained by playing an arm provides information about the remainder of the arms. Hence, in such applications, this informativeness can and should be exploited to e…