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Cugnata Federica1, Conti Pier Luigi2, Vicard Paola3
1University Centre for Statistics in the Biomedical Sciences (CUSSB), Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Abstract:
This paper focuses on detecting the existence of a treatment effect when comparing multiple treatments using discrete observational data. A new test statistic, based on a divergence measure, is introduced, and its theoretical properties are obtained. Stochastic dominance tests are also proposed, illustrating relevant practical cases of treatment-level effects ordering patterns. Numerical simulations show the effectiveness of the proposed tests, in terms of both significance level and power. A clinical application indicates that our methods can significantly enhance the evaluation of multitreatments in real-world scenarios using observational data.
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