Planned analysis
The full analysis schedule will be described before database lock in a statistical analysis plan. Briefly, the primary analysis will compare the AF burden between each group at 6 months follow‐up post‐randomisation using a generalized mixed model, including baseline and post intervention observations for each subject and parameterized to identify the period (baseline or postrandomisation) and the randomized condition in the post treatment period. Observations within a patient will be linked with a random intercept term and the denominator degrees of freedom for the principal analysis will be derived from the number of patients rather than the number of observations. 