Table 3.

Data description for illustrations : Average viral load, CD4 counts and percentage of treatment assignment in the population are displayed for simulated data and real data from the Aquitaine cohort and the SHCS. Statistics displayed are mean [Q1;Q3].

	Simulated dataset		Aquitaine Cohort	SHCS
n	200	1500	1591	1726
Missing data
Administrative	-	-	81.6%	74.7%
Death	-	-	12.7%	6.4%
Lost of follow-up	-	-	5.7%	18.9%
CD4 count
Baseline	428 [ 266 ; 545 ]	420 [ 253 ; 530 ]	471 [ 298 ; 612 ]	536 [ 357 ; 670 ]
Follow-up untreated	594 [ 485 ; 675 ]	588 [ 478 ; 656 ]	625 [ 440 ; 762 ]	543 [ 363 ; 675 ]
Follow-up treated	627 [ 417 ; 837]	606 [ 405 ; 801 ]	492 [ 315 ; 638 ]	507 [ 300 ; 660 ]
Viral Load
Baseline	3.9 [ 3.3 ; 4.6 ]	4 [ 3.4 ; 4.7 ]	4.2 [ 3.6 ; 4.8 ]	4.0 [ 3.4 ; 4.6 ]
Follow-up untreated	3.5 [ 2.9 ; 4.2 ]	3.7 [ 3.1 ; 4.4 ]	3.3 [ 2.3 ; 4.2 ]	3.8 [ 3.1 ; 4.5 ]
Follow-up treated	2.6 [ 1.7 ; 3.2 ]	2.6 [ 1.7 ; 3.2 ]	2.7 [ 1.7 ; 3.6 ]	3.2 [ 2.4 ; 4.1 ]
% undetectable viral load (baseline,untreated, treated)	(3%;4%;40%)	(2%;3%;38%)	(7%;22%;48%)	(10%;15%;57%)
Treatment assignment
Time (day)	412 [ 1 ; 631 ]	377 [ 91 ; 451 ]	727 [ 1 ; 1281 ]	548 [ 183 ; 752 ]
% treated	69%	65%	64%	34%