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Area of Science:

  • Clinical Trials Methodology
  • Biostatistics
  • Pharmacovigilance

Background:

  • Intercurrent events in clinical trials complicate treatment effect interpretation.
  • The ICH E9(R1) guideline proposes principal stratum strategy for subpopulation analysis.
  • Principal ignorability assumption for estimation is unverifiable, necessitating sensitivity analyses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a robust statistical method for estimating treatment effects in principal strata.
  • To assess the robustness of results to violations of the principal ignorability assumption.
  • To apply the method to an oncology clinical trial context for time-to-event outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a joint model for multiple imputation of principal stratum membership and outcome.
  • Incorporated varying degrees of principal ignorability violation into the model.
  • Conducted simulation studies and applied the method to a synthetic oncology trial dataset.

Main Results:

  • Joint imputation model-based approaches demonstrated superiority over naive subpopulation analyses.
  • The sensitivity analysis successfully assessed treatment effects in the target subpopulation.
  • The method provides a framework for evaluating robustness in clinical trial data.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed joint modeling approach offers a more reliable method for analyzing treatment effects in subpopulations defined by intercurrent events.
  • This strategy enhances the interpretability and robustness of clinical trial findings.
  • The methodology has potential applications in various clinical settings and extensions for complex scenarios.