Defining estimands in clinical trials: A unified procedure

The ICH E9 (R1) addendum proposes five strategies to define estimands by addressing intercurrent events. However, mathematical forms of these targeted quantities are lacking, which might lead to discordance between statisticians who estimate these quantities and clinicians, drug sponsors, and regula...

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Published in:Statistics in medicine 2023-05, Vol.42 (12), p.1869-1887
Main Authors: Han, Shasha, Zhou, Xiao‐Hua
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causal inference
clinical trials
Data Collection
Data Interpretation, Statistical
estimands
Humans
intercurrent events
Models, Statistical
post‐treatment variables
Research Design
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