why does nobody talk about SELECT
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: why does nobody talk about SELECT. Compared myself to a trial mean for about six months before realising the trial arm had dietitian contact every fortnight. The discontinuation numbers were the most useful thing in the paper for me and they were in…
Push back: an open-label extension tells you about the people who stayed. That is a different question.
registry entry, protocol, publication — three different documents
read the endpoint before you read the headline
How long was the randomised phase before any extension?
Is that intention-to-treat or completers?
Yes — the interval is the finding. A point estimate with a wide interval is a hypothesis in a nice font.