Model-free Approach to Evaluate a Censored Intermediate Outcome as a Surrogate for Overall Survival
以无模型方法评估删失中间结局对总生存期的替代作用
Clinical trials or studies oftentimes require long-term and/or costly follow-up of participants to evaluate a novel treatment/drug/vaccine. There has been increasing interest in the past few decades in using short-term surrogate outcomes as a replacement of the primary outcome i.e., in using the surrogate outcome, which can potentially be observed sooner, to make inference about the treatment effect on the long-term primary outcome. Very few of the available statistical…