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  <dc:title>Statistical Learning Methods for Optimizing Dynamic Treatment
Regimes</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package DTRlearn2 version 2.1</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: CausalInference (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=CausalInference)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>We provide a comprehensive software to estimate general K-stage DTRs from SMARTs with Q-learning and a variety of outcome-weighted learning methods. Penalizations are allowed for variable selection and model regularization. With the outcome-weighted learning scheme, different loss functions - SVM hinge loss, SVM ramp loss, binomial deviance loss, and L2 loss - are adopted to solve the weighted classification problem at each stage; augmentation in the outcomes is allowed to improve efficiency. The estimated DTR can be easily applied to a new sample for individualized treatment recommendations or DTR evaluation.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R(&gt;= 2.10)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: kernlab, MASS, Matrix, foreach, glmnet, WeightSVM</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Yuan Chen &lt;irene.yuan.chen@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Yuan Chen [aut, cre],
  Ying Liu [aut],
  Tianchen Xu [ctb] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0102-7630&gt;),
  Donglin Zeng [ctb],
  Yuanjia Wang [ctb]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL-2</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-09-10</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=DTRlearn2</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.DTRlearn2</dc:identifier>
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