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Statistical Methods for Contemporary Clinical Trials
What Makes an Estimand Useful? Guidance on the Choice of Intercurrent Event Strategies
Brennan C. Kahan, Fan Li, Michael O. Harhay, Suzie Cro
This article provides an approach for selecting intercurrent event strategies, which systematically considers the trade-off between relevance (whether it addresses a useful question) and reliability (the ability to be estimated such that stakeholders can have confidence in the results) of each strategy in order to identify those that can be used to robustly inform decision-making.
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