Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation for Dynamic Treatment Regimes With Sequential Transition Times
带序贯转移时间的动态治疗方案的贝叶斯非参数估计
We analyze a dataset arising from a clinical trial involving multi-stage chemotherapy regimes for acute leukemia. The trial design was a 2 × 2 factorial for frontline therapies only. Motivated by the idea that subsequent salvage treatments affect survival time, we model therapy as a dynamic treatment regime (DTR), that is, an alternating sequence of adaptive treatments or other actions and transition times between disease states. These sequences may vary substantially…