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April 28, 2024Clinical Trials

Causal interpretation of the hazard ratio in randomized clinical trials

Michael P. Fay Fan Li

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Abstract

Although the hazard ratio has no straightforward causal interpretation, clinical trialists commonly use it as a measure of treatment effect.

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Fay et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6d2e5b6db643587650941 https://doi.org/10.1177/17407745241243308

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