Investigating treatment-effect modification by a continuous covariate in IPD meta-analysis: an approach using fractional polynomials

Background: In clinical trials, there is considerable interest in investigating whether a treatment effect is similar in all patients, or that one or more prognostic variables indicate a differential response to treatment. To examine this, a continuous predictor is usually categorised into groups ac...

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Main Authors: Royston, P. (Author), Sauerbrei, W. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2022
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