Background During the COVID‐19 pandemic, patients with chronic illnesses avoided
regular medical care, raising concerns about long‐term complications. Our objective was to …

Heterogeneity in response to treatment is a pervasive problem in medicine. Many
researchers have proposed individualized treatment rule methods for this problem, which …

Semicontinuous outcomes commonly arise in a wide variety of fields, such as insurance
claims, healthcare expenditures, rainfall amounts, and alcohol consumption. Regression …

Medical treatments tailored to a patient's baseline characteristics hold the potential of
improving patient outcomes while reducing negative side effects. Learning individualized …

Clinical treatment outcomes are the quality and cost targets that health‐care providers aim to
improve. Most existing outcome analysis focuses on a single disease or all diseases …

Non-negative two-part outcomes are defined as outcomes with a density function that have a
zero point mass but are otherwise positive. Examples, such as healthcare expenditure and …

As the nation's largest healthcare payer, the Medicare program generates an unimaginable
vast volume of medical data. With an increasing emphasis on evidence-based care, how to …

Abstract A Constitution Contested: Governors, Assemblies, and Imperial Politics in Jamaica
and New York, 1675-1730 Winston Sinclair Hill 2021 This dissertation focuses on the …