inferential statistical data analysis intent-to-treat analysis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159210/ ITT analysis An inferential statistical data analysis that includes all randomized patients in the groups to which they were randomly assigned. The intent-to-treat analysis is based on the initial treatment assignment and not on the treatment eventually received. ITT analysis includes every subject who is randomized according to randomized treatment assignment. It ignores noncompliance, protocol deviations, withdrawal, and anything that happens after randomization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention-to-treat_analysis HL, QL, YH