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Targeted Learning in Data Science

Causal Inference for Complex Longitudinal Studies. Springer Series in Statistics

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 10th Apr 2018
Dimensions: w 151mm h 239mm d 42mm
Weight: 1145g
ISBN-10: 3319653032
ISBN-13: 9783319653037
Barcode No: 9783319653037
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This textbook for graduate students in statistics, data science, and public health deals with the practical challenges that come with big, complex, and dynamic data. It presents a scientific roadmap to translate real-world data science applications into formal statistical estimation problems by using the general template of targeted maximum likelihood estimators. These targeted machine learning algorithms estimate quantities of interest while still providing valid inference. Targeted learning methods within data science area critical component for solving scientific problems in the modern age. The techniques can answer complex questions including optimal rules for assigning treatment based on longitudinal data with time-dependent confounding, as well as other estimands in dependent data structures, such as networks. Included in Targeted Learning in Data Science are demonstrations with soft ware packages and real data sets that present a case that targeted learning is crucial for the next generation of statisticians and data scientists. Th is book is a sequel to the first textbook on machine learning for causal inference, Targeted Learning, published in 2011. Mark van der Laan, PhD, is Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at UC Berkeley. His research interests include statistical methods in genomics, survival analysis, censored data, machine learning, semiparametric models, causal inference, and targeted learning. Dr. van der Laan received the 2004 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, the 2005 Van Dantzig Award, the 2005 COPSS Snedecor Award, the 2005 COPSS Presidential Award, and has graduated over 40 PhD students in biostatistics and statistics. Sherri Rose, PhD, is Associate Professor of Health Care Policy (Biostatistics) at Harvard Medical School. Her work is centered on developing and integrating innovative statistical approaches to advance human health. Dr. Rose's methodological research focuses on nonparametric machine learning for causal inference and prediction. She co-leads the Health Policy Data Science Lab and currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Biostatistics.

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"A list of abbreviations, including all the statistical terms used in the textbook, as well as a list of tables and figures would be a welcome addition to the book. This may be particularly useful as the TMLE is a very important application in parametric statistics, and may be used by biostatisticians ... . Specifically, those with a very good knowledge of advanced theoretical statistics, including the observational and modeling statistics that are almost prerequisite for appreciating this textbook." (Ramzi El Feghali, ISCB News, iscb.info, Issue 67, June, 2019)


"The book recommends itself as a thorough overview of TMLE approaches with a variety of examples and case studies, all presented in detail, in a text-book like manner, making this work accessible to a wide audience from undergraduates to established researchers." (Irina Ioana Mohorianu, zbMATH 1408.62005, 2019)