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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2019 May;30(3):358–364. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000966

Table 2.

Intention-to-treat and per-protocol effects in the higher HIV incidence African setting and generalized to the lower incidence US setting, estimated using g-computation

Parameter African Trials
(trial n=4000)
US/African
Composite Trials
(trial n=500/4000)
US Trial
(n=10,000)


RR 2.5th 97.5th RR 2.5th 97.5th RR 2.5th 97.5th
Intention to treat 0.65 0.47 0.88 0.42 0.20 0.62 0.41 0.19 0.68
Per protocol 0.20 0.08 0.34 0.17 0.03 0.38 0.13 0.00 0.31

Abbreviations: HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; US, United States; n: sample size; RR, average risk ratio; 2.5th: 2.5th percentile of the 2000 simulation RRs or, for the US trial, of 500 bootstrap resamples; 97.5th: 97.5th percentile of the 2000 simulation RRs or, for the US trial, of 500 bootstrap resamples