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SUBMITTER: Hsu CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2668929 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hsu Chiu-Hsieh CH Taylor Jeremy M G JM Long Qi Q Alberts David S DS
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology 20090224 3
The treatment effect of a colorectal polyp prevention trial is often evaluated from the colorectal adenoma recurrence status at the end of the trial. However, early colonoscopy from some participants complicates estimation of the final study end recurrence rate. The early colonoscopy could be informative of status of recurrence and induce informative differential follow-up into the data. In this article, we use midpoint imputation to handle interval-censored observations. We then apply a weighte ...[more]