I have data from a prospective study with two measurements per participant (baseline and follow-up). I am interested in whether a score obtained at baseline predicts disease development at follow-up, taking interval between baseline and follow-up into account (time interval differs for each participant). Because some paticipants missed follow-up (they dropped out or deceased) my data is **right-censored**. **Cox regression** demonstrated my score as significant predictor, however, this analysis was performed on the non-censored sample resulting in selection bias. I read about **inverse probability weighting**, f.e., in Hernán's and Robins' [book](https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/). I wonder whether this technique is also applicable in my case of *only one observation* per censored participant. If no, does anbyody have any advice to account for the selection bias in my sample? ##### edit: The cox regression which I calculated was performed on a dataset including only non-censored participants, follow-up status (disease yes/no), and number of months from baseline to follow-up. Example of my data: ``` ID disease months censored score a 0 66 0 0 c 1 30 0 1 e 0 45 0 0 ``` ``` coxph(Surv(months, disease) ~score, covariates, data = dat) ``` I was thinking right now whether in this case I can simply account for right-censoring by including censored participants? ``` ID disease months censored score a 0 0 0 0 a 0 66 0 0 *b* 0 0 1 0 c 0 0 0 1 c 1 30 0 1 *d* 0 0 0 1 e 0 0 0 0 e 0 45 0 0 ``` ``` coxph(Surv(months, disease) ~score, covariates, data = dat) ``` ... But as my goal is to predict whether particpants developed the disease *at follow-up* and **not** at *baseline*, I am unsure whether this analysis answers another statistical question than mine.