Pattern-Based Sequential Multiple Imputation for Missing Data in Clinical Trials: An Extension for Baseline-Only Early Dropout Subjects
临床试验序贯多重插补:仅有基线数据的早期退出者扩展
Under the ICH E9 (R1) addendum, treatment policy strategies for intercurrent events target the treatment effect regardless of treatment discontinuation. Sequential multiple imputation (MI) models that condition each visit's imputation on discontinuation status or pattern reduce bias relative to mixed models and standard MI, but require every subject to contribute at least one post-baseline observation, an assumption violated by subjects who withdraw before any post-baseline…