AI Seminar
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    Tuesday, November 18th, 2003
    4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
    175 ATL (Large Conference Room)

    "Reinforcement Learning in the Social and Medical Sciences"

    Susan Murphy
    Professor, Statistics Department
    Senior Research Scientist, Survey Research Center
    University of Michigan




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This talk will discuss some of the unique challenges the reinforcement
learning field faces in order to use reinforcement learning in the
social and medical sciences. These include high noise/signal ratio,
unknown system dynamics and selection bias. This talk will focus on
learning from a batch of historical data and/or a batch of
experimental data.  A new method for learning an optimal policy will
be discussed.