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Activity Number: 9 - Impact of Using Surrogate Endpoints on Drug Development
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, July 28, 2019 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: WNAR
Abstract #300444 Presentation
Title: An Information-Theoretic Approach for the Evaluation of Surrogate Endpoints Based on Causal Inference
Author(s): Ariel Alonso Abad*
Companies: KUleuven
Keywords: Causal inference; Information theory; Surrogate endpoints
Abstract:

In this work a new metric of surrogacy, the so-called individual causal association (ICA), is introduced using information-theoretic concepts and a causal inference model for a binary surrogate and true endpoint. The ICA has a simple and appealing interpretation in terms of uncertainty reduction and, in some scenarios, it seems to provide a more coherent assessment of the validity of a surrogate than existing measures. The identifiability issues are tackled using a two-step procedure. In the first step, the region of the parametric space of the distribution of the potential outcomes, compatible with the data at hand, is geometrically characterized. Further, in a second step, a Monte Carlo approach is proposed to study the behavior of the ICA on the previous region. The method is illustrated using data from the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study.


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