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SUBMITTER: Raad H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7092449 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
BMC medical research methodology 20200323 1
<h4>Background</h4>It is important to estimate the treatment effect of interest accurately and precisely within the analysis of randomised controlled trials. One way to increase precision in the estimate and thus improve the power for randomised trials with continuous outcomes is through adjustment for pre-specified prognostic baseline covariates. Typically covariate adjustment is conducted using regression analysis, however recently, Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting (IPTW) using the p ...[more]