intent-to-treat vs per-protocol explains half the arguments on this site
Trying to settle this properly because the thread from last year went in circles. The claim: STEP matters. The counter-claim: it is measurement error. Both sides have been asserting it confidently for about 8 months without either producing anything. What would actually settle it is 9 people measuring the same thing…
the discontinuation arms are the interesting part, not the SURPASS endpoints
You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.
This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.
event rates are more informative than hazard ratios alone
dropout handling matters, especially on GI-heavy populations