Choosing clinically interpretable summary measures and robust analytic procedures for quantifying the treatment difference in comparative clinical studies

Affiliations

• ¹ 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California.
• ² Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
• ³ Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Co., Shanghai, China.
• ⁴ Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ⁵ Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Section for Medical Statistics, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁷ Laboratory for Psychiatric Biostatistics, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts.
• ⁸ Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.