Towards Best Practices for Covariate Adjustment in Regulatory Trials: From Fixed to Data-Adaptive Approaches
监管试验协变量调整的良好实践:从固定到数据自适应方法
While randomization justifies the use of unadjusted effect estimators in randomized trials, there is growing interest in covariate adjustment to improve precision. Adjusting for baseline variables that are prognostic of the outcome can reduce estimator variance, resulting in narrower confidence intervals and increased statistical power. Recent guidance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration supports fixed adjustment for prognostic covariates using parametric regression…