An Algorithm for Making Informed Decisions about Patient Care from Interactions between Genetic and Environmental Factors

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8417012
• Publication Date: 2023-10-07
• Authors: Prince Nelson, Sybil; Nietert, Paul; Ramakrishnan, Vis...; Kamen, Diane; Ramos, Paula; Wolf, Bethany

The use of statistics in medicine is important for making informed decisions for patient care and discovering possible new treatments or cures. Thus, it is often useful to find what factors lead to increased risk of disease. This paper proposes a method called C.Logic that eliminates the need to state interactions a priori and can effectively identify which interactions are associated with outcome without being biased toward the inclusion of continuous factors into the model