Evaluating treatment effects on longitudinal outcomes with attrition due to death: Methods for a two-dimentional estimand with a case study in Quality of Life
死亡导致退出时的纵向处理效应:二维目标量与生活质量案例
When longitudinal outcomes are evaluated in mortal populations, their non-existence after death complicates the analysis and its causal interpretation. Where popular methods often merge longitudinal outcome and survival into one scale or otherwise try to circumvent the problem of mortality, some highly relevant questions require survival to be acknowledged as a unique condition. "\textit{What are my chances of survival}" and "\textit{What can I expect for my condition while…