BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250918T082912EDT-0826VJ3RN8@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250918T122912Z DESCRIPTION:\n New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes\n\n  \n\n Abstract:\n\n\nFinding the optimal treatment regime (or a series of s equential treatment regimes) based on individual characteristics has impor tant applications in precision medicine. We propose two new approaches to quantify uncertainty in optimal treatment regime estimation. First\, we co nsider inference in the model-free setting\, which does not require specif ying an outcome regression model. Existing model-free estimators for optim al treatment regimes are usually not suitable for the purpose of inference \, because they either have nonstandard asymptotic distributions or do not necessarily guarantee consistent estimation of the parameter indexing the Bayes rule due to the use of surrogate loss. We study a smoothed robust e stimator that directly targets the parameter corresponding to the Bayes de cision rule for optimal treatment regimes estimation. We verify that a res ampling procedure provides asymptotically accurate inference for both the parameter indexing the optimal treatment regime and the optimal value func tion. Next\, we consider the high-dimensional setting and propose a semipa rametric model-assisted approach for simultaneous inference. Simulation re sults and real data examples are used for illustration.\n\n\n Speaker\n\n\n Dr. Lan Wang is a Professor from the Department of Management Science at t he Miami Herbert Business School of the University of Miami\, with a secon dary appointment as Professor of Public Health Sciences at the Miller Scho ol of Medicine\, University of Miami. She currently serves as the Co-Edito r for Annals of Statistics (2022-2024)\, jointly with Professor Enno Mamme n.\n\nDr. Wang’s research covers several interrelated areas: high-dimensio nal statistical learning\, quantile regression\, optimal personalized deci sion recommendation\, and survival analysis. She is also interested in int erdisciplinary collaboration\, driven by applications in healthcare\, busi ness\, economics\, and other domains.\n\nBefore joining University of Miam i\, she was a Professor of Statistics at School of Statistics\, University of Minnesota. She got her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Pennsylvania State University. She got her Bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from Tsi nghua University\, China.\n\nDr. Wang is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association\, an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathemati cal Statistics\, and an elected member of the International Statistical In stitute. She was the associate editor for several leading statistical jour nals: Journal of the American Statistical Associations\, Annals of Statist ics\, Journal of the Royal Statistics Society\, and Biometrics.\n\n9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ Statistics Seminar schedule: https://mcgillstat.github.io/\n\nhttps://mcgi ll.zoom.us/j/83436686293?pwd=b0RmWmlXRXE3OWR6NlNIcWF5d0dJQT09\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n \n  \n \n \n\n DTSTART:20220311T203000Z DTEND:20220311T213000Z SUMMARY:Lan Wang (University of Miami) URL:/mathstat/channels/event/lan-wang-university-miami -338354 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR