Estimating a treatment effect with repeated measurements accounting for varying effectiveness duration
考虑有效持续时间变化的重复测量治疗效应估计
To assess treatment efficacy in clinical trials, certain clinical outcomes are repeatedly measured over time for the same subject. The difference in their means may characterize a treatment effect. Since treatment effectiveness lag and saturation times may exist, erosion of treatment effect often occurs during the observation period. Instead of using models based on ad hoc parametric or purely nonparametric time-varying coefficients, we model the treatment effectiveness…