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Dusseldorp, E.M.L.; Claramunt Gonzalez, J. (2022)

Quint: Qualitative Interaction Trees (version 2.2.2)

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When two treatment alternatives (say A and B) are available for some problem, one may be interested in qualitative treatment-subgroup interactions. Such interactions imply the existence of subgroups of persons (patients) which are such that in one subgroup Treatment A outperforms Treatment B, whereas the reverse holds in another subgroup. Obviously, this type of interactions is crucial for optimal treatment assignment of future patients. Given baseline characteristics and outcome data from a two-arm Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), QUalitative INteraction Trees (QUINT) is a tool to identify subgroups that are involved in meaningful qualitative treatment-subgroup interactions. The result of QUINT is a tree that partitions the total group of participants (patients) on the basis of their baseline characteristics into three subgroups (i.e., partition classes): Subgroup 1: Those for whom Treatment A is better than Treatment B (P1), Subgroup 2: Those for whom Treatment B is better...Show moreWhen two treatment alternatives (say A and B) are available for some problem, one may be interested in qualitative treatment-subgroup interactions. Such interactions imply the existence of subgroups of persons (patients) which are such that in one subgroup Treatment A outperforms Treatment B, whereas the reverse holds in another subgroup. Obviously, this type of interactions is crucial for optimal treatment assignment of future patients. Given baseline characteristics and outcome data from a two-arm Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), QUalitative INteraction Trees (QUINT) is a tool to identify subgroups that are involved in meaningful qualitative treatment-subgroup interactions. The result of QUINT is a tree that partitions the total group of participants (patients) on the basis of their baseline characteristics into three subgroups (i.e., partition classes): Subgroup 1: Those for whom Treatment A is better than Treatment B (P1), Subgroup 2: Those for whom Treatment B is better than Treatment A (P2), and Subgroup 3: Those for whom it does not make any difference (P3). This mehod was implemented in the R-package "quint".Show less
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Interaction Effects
Treatment Effectiveness
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Dusseldorp, E.M.L.; Claramunt Gonzalez, J.
Date
2022-01-07
Link
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=quint