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- Title
Regression‐based multiple treatment effect estimation under covariate‐adaptive randomization.
- Authors
Gu, Yujia; Liu, Hanzhong; Ma, Wei
- Abstract
Covariate‐adaptive randomization methods are widely used in clinical trials to balance baseline covariates. Recent studies have shown the validity of using regression‐based estimators for treatment effects without imposing functional form requirements on the true data generation model. These studies have had limitations in certain scenarios; for example, in the case of multiple treatment groups, these studies did not consider additional covariates or assumed that the allocation ratios were the same across strata. To address these limitations, we develop a stratum‐common estimator and a stratum‐specific estimator under multiple treatments. We derive the asymptotic behaviors of these estimators and propose consistent nonparametric estimators for asymptotic variances. To determine their efficiency, we compare the estimators with the stratified difference‐in‐means estimator as the benchmark. We find that the stratum‐specific estimator guarantees efficiency gains, regardless of whether the allocation ratios across strata are the same or different. Our conclusions were also validated by simulation studies and a real clinical trial example.
- Subjects
RANDOMIZATION (Statistics); TREATMENT effectiveness; CLINICAL trials; DATA modeling
- Publication
Biometrics, 2023, Vol 79, Issue 4, p2869
- ISSN
0006-341X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/biom.13925