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BIOMETRICS
卷 65, 期 1, 页码 96-103出版社
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01020.x
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Bootstrap; Causal effect; Multinomial outcomes; Noncompliance; Randomized trials
This article considers the analysis of two-arm randomized trials with noncompliance, which have a multinomial outcome. We first define the causal effect in these trials as some function of outcome distributions of compliers with and without treatment (e. g., the complier average causal effect, the measure of stochastic superiority of treatment over control for compliers), then estimate the causal effect with the likelihood method. Next, based on the likelihood-ratio (LR) statistic, we test those functions of or the equality of the outcome distributions of compliers with and without treatment. Although the corresponding LR statistic follows a chi-squared (chi(2)) distribution asymptotically when the true values of parameters are in the interior of the parameter space under the null, its asymptotic distribution is not chi(2) when the true values of parameters are on the boundary of the parameter space under the null. Therefore, we propose a bootstrap/double bootstrap version of a LR test for the causal effect in these trials. The methods are illustrated by an analysis of data from a randomized trial of an encouragement intervention to improve adherence to prescribed depression treatments among depressed elderly patients in primary care practices.
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