A flexible framework for treatment effect inference in longitudinal clinical studies with skewed outcomes
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Longitudinal continuous outcomes in clinical trials are commonly analyzed using mixed models for repeated measures (MMRM) under normality assumptions. However, many clinical outcomes are skewed, making mean-based treatment effects difficult to interpret and potentially reducing statistical efficiency. The Box--Cox MMRM (BCMMRM) approach accommodates skewness by enabling inference on model-based median differences via inverse transformation. However, BCMMRM typically assumes…