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Sharp bounds on the relative treatment effect for ordinal outcomes

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  • Jiannan Lu
  • Yunshu Zhang
  • Peng Ding

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For ordinal outcomes, the average treatment effect is often ill‐defined and hard to interpret. Echoing Agresti and Kateri, we argue that the relative treatment effect can be a useful measure, especially for ordinal outcomes, which is defined as γ=pr{Yi(1)>Yi(0)}−pr{Yi(1)

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  • Jiannan Lu & Yunshu Zhang & Peng Ding, 2020. "Sharp bounds on the relative treatment effect for ordinal outcomes," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 76(2), pages 664-669, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:biomet:v:76:y:2020:i:2:p:664-669
    DOI: 10.1111/biom.13148
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