My new publication, “Identifying informative censoring from censoring patterns across successive follow-ups”, is out in the European Journal of Cancer and is openly accessible here.
Great stuff! Have a question though. If the rate of early informative censoring is significant but equal between the arms, while the REASON for censoring is different (early dropout for toxicity in experimental and "disappointment" in control arm) would your method of the "censoring area" have a particular pattern?
Thanks, great question, the pattern does not indicate the reason. However you can identify areas where it's reasonable to make various assumptions (even though informative censoring can occur outside that "area")
Great stuff! Have a question though. If the rate of early informative censoring is significant but equal between the arms, while the REASON for censoring is different (early dropout for toxicity in experimental and "disappointment" in control arm) would your method of the "censoring area" have a particular pattern?
Thanks, great question, the pattern does not indicate the reason. However you can identify areas where it's reasonable to make various assumptions (even though informative censoring can occur outside that "area")
Reasons matter a lot, I agree, you might be familiar with this work : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959804924001187