Seyyedeh Fatemeh Seyyed Hashemi, Reza Khosrowabadi, Mohsen Karimi
Set-shifting and inhibition interplay affect the rule-matching bias occurrence during conditional reasoning task
Journal of medicine and life
individuals many observational studies clinical trials chronic diseases enrolled well onset diagnosis disease times events interest enrollment therefore residual lefttruncated event times individuals entering studies disease advanced varying extents moreover enrollment usually entails probability sampling study population finally event times short moderate time horizon often interest investigations rather speculative remote happenings lie beyond study period research report looks issue delayed entry kinds studies trials time event individual modelled first hitting time event threshold latent disease process taken wiener process emphasized recruitment studies often involves lengthbiased sampling requisite mathematics kind sampling delayed entry presented including explicit formulas needed estimation inference restricted mean survival time rmst taken clinically relevant outcome measure exact parametric formulas measure derived presented results extended settings involve study covariates using threshold regression methods methods adapted clinical trials presented extensive case illustration clinical trial setting presented demonstrate methods interpretation results harvesting useful insights closing discussion covers number important issues concepts