What is meant by intention to treat analysis and how to use this method in a statistical software? (For example in SAS)
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asked Oct 18, 2016 at 7:09
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Intention to treat is the policy that all participants in a trial should be analyzed in the arm to which they were allocated not the treatment they actually received. This avoids a number of possible biases due to differential uptake of treatment. It has nothing to do with which statistical analysis you choose nor with which software you employ.
