Sharp bounds on the relative treatment effect for ordinal outcomes

Jiannan Lu, Yunshu Zhang and Peng Ding

Biometrics, 2020, vol. 76, issue 2, 664-669

Abstract: 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)

Date: 2020
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