##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences ^ **DATE:**|Thursday, October 8, 2020 | ^ **TIME:**|1:15pm -- 2:15pm | ^ **LOCATION:**|Zoom meeting | ^ **SPEAKER:**|Xinhai Zhang, Binghamton University | ^ **TITLE:**|Outcome Weighted Learning for Optimal Treatment Regimes | \\ **Abstract** There is increasing interest in discovering individualized treatment rules for patients who have heterogeneous responses to treatment. In particular, one aims to find an optimal individualized treatment rule which is a deterministic function of patient specific characteristics maximizing expected clinical outcome. Zhao et al. (2012) shown that estimating such an optimal treatment regime is equivalent to a classification problem where each subject is weighted proportional to his or her clinical outcome. Then they propose an outcome weighted learning (OWL) approach based on the support vector machine framework. A few other development after the original OWL will also be in this talk.