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Drugs with therapeutic equivalence #5

Open eashwarsiddharth opened 7 years ago

eashwarsiddharth commented 7 years ago

In this dataset, is it possible that Drug_Name 'A' has the same effect as Drug_Name 'B' ?

If this is possible, we will be able to identify which equivalent drug is being prescribed instead of a specified drug.

With this information we will also be able to calculate the probability that someone prescribing Drug_Name 'B' could be converted to prescribe Drug_Name 'A'.

Provided Drug_Name 'A' & 'B' are produced by competitors. If they are produced by the same manufacturer, they could avoid Cannibalization.

@sagitechls @Rajhan

Rajhan commented 7 years ago

Leave out the forces of economics and related concepts.

drugs efficacy level data is not available.

Rajhan commented 7 years ago

@eashwarsiddharth start with preliminary analysis and extensive EDA on the data set. Since you asked comparison of drugs, drugs.com has a list of drugs, its price, reviews, ratings, etc. extract that info from the website.

answer these questions 1) whether drugs reviews, ratings influence the doc's preferences. 2)whether the pricing of drugs has an influence on the prescribing pattern. 3) what is the necessity of choosing branded vs generics and vice versa.