A class of nonparametric methods for evaluating the effect of continuous treatments on survival outcomes
评估连续处理对生存结局影响的一类非参数方法
In randomized trials and observational studies, it is often necessary to evaluate the extent to which an intervention affects a time-to-event outcome, which is only partially observed due to right censoring. For instance, in infectious disease studies, it is frequently of interest to characterize the relationship between risk of acquisition of infection with a pathogen and a biomarker previously measuring for an immune response against that pathogen induced by prior…