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ArticleJournal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics2025

Synergistic self-learning approach to establishing individualized treatment rules from multiple benefit outcomes in a calcium supplementation trial.

Yiwang Zhou, Peter X K Song

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Article in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yiwang ZhouDepartment of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Pl, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8023-205X
Peter X K SongDepartment of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

Funding

E3Gen: Multigenerational Influences of Social Structure on Toxicant Exposures and Life Course Health in the ELEMENT CohortU24ES028502 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI PETERSON, KAREN EILEEN, SONG, PETER XUEKUN · 2023 to 2025
$1.0M
NIEHS NIH HHS U24 ES028502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In utero lead exposure poses risks to children's neurobehavioral development. The Early Life Exposure in Mexico to ENvironmental Toxicants' calcium supplementation trial studies the effect of calcium supplement in reducing maternal lead exposure to infants during pregnancy. An individualized treatment rule (ITR) is needed to guide pregnant women on taking calcium supplement. This article introduces a statistical learning method, synergistic self-learning (SS-learning), to tackle two challenges in deriving ITR with multiple outcomes, including heterogeneous multidimensional outcomes and complex missing data patterns. Applying SS-learning to the trial, important covariates were identified to form an ITR, expected to lead to higher lead reduction if implemented across the study population.

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dietary supplementDOHaD hypothesisO-learningprecision nutritionpropensity scoresupport vector machine

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PMID40837826
PMCPMC12364546

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