
ABSTRACTIn clinical trials, principal stratification analysis is commonly employed to address the issue of truncation by death, where a subject dies before the outcome can be measured. However, in practice, many survivor outcomes may remain uncollected or be missing not at random, posing a challenge to standard principal stratification analysis. In this article, we explore the identification, estimation, and bounds of the average treatment effect within a subpopulation of individuals who would potentially survive under both treatment and control conditions. We show that the causal parameter of interest can be identified by introducing a proxy variable that affects the outcome only through the principal strata, while requiring that the treatment variable does not directly affect the missingness mechanism. Subsequently, we propose an approach for estimating causal parameters and derive nonparametric bounds in cases where identification assumptions are violated. We illustrate the performance of the proposed method through simulation studies and a real dataset obtained from a human immunodeficiency virus study.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Clinical Trials as Topic, Models, Statistical, Methodology, HIV Infections, Causality, Methodology (stat.ME), Treatment Outcome, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Applications, Humans, Computer Simulation, Applications (stat.AP), Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Clinical Trials as Topic, Models, Statistical, Methodology, HIV Infections, Causality, Methodology (stat.ME), Treatment Outcome, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Applications, Humans, Computer Simulation, Applications (stat.AP), Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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