Adjusting for Incomplete Baseline Covariates in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Cross-World Imputation Framework
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| author | Song, Yilin Hughes, James P. Ye, Ting |
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| contents | In randomized controlled trials, adjusting for baseline covariates is often applied to improve the precision of treatment effect estimation. However, missingness in covariates is common. Recently, Zhao & Ding (2022) studied two simple strategies, the single imputation method and missingness indicator method (MIM), to deal with missing covariates, and showed that both methods can provide efficiency gain. To better understand and compare these two strategies, we propose and investigate a novel imputation framework termed cross-world imputation (CWI), which includes single imputation and MIM as special cases. Through the lens of CWI, we show that MIM implicitly searches for the optimal CWI values and thus achieves optimal efficiency. We also derive conditions under which the single imputation method, by searching for the optimal single imputation values, can achieve the same efficiency as the MIM. |
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| spellingShingle | Adjusting for Incomplete Baseline Covariates in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Cross-World Imputation Framework Song, Yilin Hughes, James P. Ye, Ting Methodology Statistics Theory In randomized controlled trials, adjusting for baseline covariates is often applied to improve the precision of treatment effect estimation. However, missingness in covariates is common. Recently, Zhao & Ding (2022) studied two simple strategies, the single imputation method and missingness indicator method (MIM), to deal with missing covariates, and showed that both methods can provide efficiency gain. To better understand and compare these two strategies, we propose and investigate a novel imputation framework termed cross-world imputation (CWI), which includes single imputation and MIM as special cases. Through the lens of CWI, we show that MIM implicitly searches for the optimal CWI values and thus achieves optimal efficiency. We also derive conditions under which the single imputation method, by searching for the optimal single imputation values, can achieve the same efficiency as the MIM. |
| title | Adjusting for Incomplete Baseline Covariates in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Cross-World Imputation Framework |
| topic | Methodology Statistics Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01269 |