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  • Clinical Trials Methodology

Background:

  • Cluster randomized trials (CRTs) are susceptible to bias from informative missing outcome data.
  • Existing methods often fail to address missingness at the cluster level or in multi-level structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop novel estimators for marginal treatment effects in CRTs with multi-level informative missing outcome data.
  • To provide a robust statistical framework for analyzing complex CRT data.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed new multi-level multiply robust estimators based on weighted generalized estimating equations.
  • Developed methods to account for missingness at individual and cluster levels, including subclusters.

Main Results:

  • The proposed multi-level estimator is consistent and asymptotically normally distributed.
  • Demonstrated robustness under the assumption that at least one postulated propensity score model at each clustering level is correct.

Conclusions:

  • The new estimators effectively handle informative missing outcome data at multiple levels in CRTs.
  • The method was validated through simulations and applied to a real-world malaria intervention study.