Sensitivity analyses for effect modifiers not observed in the target population when generalizing treatment effects from a randomized controlled trial: Assumptions, models, effect scales, data scenarios, and implementation details

• Trang Quynh Nguyen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tnguye28@jhu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Benjamin Ackerman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2522-6623

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• Ian Schmid,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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• Stephen R. Cole,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

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• Elizabeth A. Stuart

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

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