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  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Trial Methodology
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Intercurrent events complicate the precise definition of treatment effects in clinical trials.
  • Estimands and principal strata are crucial for accurately defining and analyzing treatment effects.
  • Traditional analyses often yield biased results when dealing with intercurrent events.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose novel principal quantile treatment effect estimators.
  • To enable nonparametric estimation of potential outcome distributions using principal score weighting.
  • To provide accurate treatment effect estimates in the presence of intercurrent events, without the exclusion restriction assumption.

Main Methods:

  • Development of principal quantile treatment effect estimators.
  • Application of principal score weighting for nonparametric estimation.
  • Simulation studies to evaluate estimator performance.
  • Illustration using data from a nonerosive reflux disease randomized controlled trial.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method accurately estimates quantiles of outcomes within principal strata.
  • Simulation studies confirm the validity of the estimators, especially when quantiles are preferred over means.
  • The method effectively handles intercurrent events without bias.

Conclusions:

  • Principal quantile treatment effect estimators offer a robust approach for analyzing treatment effects in randomized trials with intercurrent events.
  • The proposed method is particularly useful when population-level summaries like medians or quantiles are of primary interest.
  • This technique enhances the precision and reliability of treatment effect estimation in complex clinical trial settings.