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Causal proportional hazards models and time-constant exposure in randomized clinical trials

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LIFETIME DATA ANALYSIS
卷 11, 期 4, 页码 435-449

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DOI: 10.1007/s10985-005-5233-z

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causal inference; clinical trials; compliance; proportional hazards; structural modelling

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  1. NIAID NIH HHS [AI 38885] Funding Source: Medline
  2. NIGMS NIH HHS [R01-GM48704-06] Funding Source: Medline

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The last decade saw enormous progress in the development of causal inference tools to account for noncompliance in randomized clinical trials. With survival outcomes, structural accelerated failure time (SAFT) models enable causal estimation of effects of observed treatments without making direct assumptions on the compliance selection mechanism. The traditional proportional hazards model has however rarely been used for causal inference. The estimator proposed by Loeys and Goetghebeur (2003, Biometrics vol. 59 pp. 100-105) is limited to the setting of all or nothing exposure. In this paper, we propose an estimation procedure for more general causal proportional hazards models linking the distribution of potential treatment-free survival times to the distribution of observed survival times via observed (time-constant) exposures. Specifically, we first build models for observed exposure-specific survival times. Next, using the proposed causal proportional hazards model, the exposure-specific survival distributions are backtransformed to their treatment-free counterparts, to obtain-after proper mixing the unconditional treatment-free survival distribution. Estimation of the parameter(s) in the causal model is then based on minimizing a test statistic for equality in backtransformed survival distributions between randomized arms.

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