Recent development on statistical methods for personalized medicine discovery

Front Med. 2013 Mar;7(1):102-10. doi: 10.1007/s11684-013-0245-7. Epub 2013 Feb 2.

Abstract

It is well documented that patients can show significant heterogeneous responses to treatments so the best treatment strategies may require adaptation over individuals and time. Recently, a number of new statistical methods have been developed to tackle the important problem of estimating personalized treatment rules using single-stage or multiple-stage clinical data. In this paper, we provide an overview of these methods and list a number of challenges.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Clinical Trials as Topic / statistics & numerical data
  • Drug Discovery* / methods
  • Drug Discovery* / standards
  • Drug Discovery* / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Medication Therapy Management* / standards
  • Medication Therapy Management* / statistics & numerical data
  • Patient Selection
  • Precision Medicine* / methods
  • Precision Medicine* / standards
  • Precision Medicine* / statistics & numerical data
  • Random Allocation