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主分层处理效应中的选择偏差AI 解读

Estimation of treatment effect for principal strata has been studied for more than two decades. Existing research exclusively focuses on the estimation, but there is little research on forming and testing hypotheses for principal stratification-based estimands. In this brief report, we discuss a phenomenon in which the true treatment effect for a principal stratum may not equal zero even if the two treatments have the same effect at patient level which implies an equal…

利用多重插补估计依从者的治疗效应AI 解读

Randomized controlled trials are considered the gold standard to evaluate the treatment effect (estimand) for efficacy and safety. According to the recent International Council on Harmonisation (ICH)-E9 addendum (R1), intercurrent events (ICEs) need to be considered when defining an estimand, and principal stratum is one of the five strategies to handle ICEs. Qu et al. (2020, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research 12:1-18) proposed estimators for the adherer average causal…