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Clinical Trial
. 1985 Jul-Sep;4(3):255-63.
doi: 10.1002/sim.4780040304.

Assessing apparent treatment--covariate interactions in randomized clinical trials

Clinical Trial

Assessing apparent treatment--covariate interactions in randomized clinical trials

D P Byar. Stat Med. 1985 Jul-Sep.

Abstract

In the context of clinical trials, a qualitative treatment--covariate interaction occurs when a patient's preferred treatment depends on his covariates. In this paper I review the nature and interpretation of various kinds of interactions, compare the use of overall tests for interaction to subset analysis, present some examples of apparent treatment-covariate interactions that have arisen in actual randomized clinical trials, and discuss some recent work by others related to significance testing, estimation and assessment of apparent treatment-covariate interactions.

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