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Formulas, Algorithms and Examples for Binomial Distributed Data Confidence Interval Calculation: Excess Risk, Relative Risk and Odds Ratio

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  • Lorentz Jäntschi

    (Department of Physics and Chemistry, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, 400641 Cluj, Romania
    Chemical Doctoral School, Babes-Bolyai University, 400028 Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

Abstract

Medical studies often involve a comparison between two outcomes, each collected from a sample. The probability associated with, and confidence in the result of the study is of most importance, since one may argue that having been wrong with a percent could be what killed a patient. Sampling is usually done from a finite and discrete population and it follows a Bernoulli trial, leading to a contingency of two binomially distributed samples (better known as 2 × 2 contingency table). Current guidelines recommend reporting relative measures of association (such as the relative risk and odds ratio) in conjunction with absolute measures of association (which include risk difference or excess risk). Because the distribution is discrete, the evaluation of the exact confidence interval for either of those measures of association is a mathematical challenge. Some alternate scenarios were analyzed (continuous vs. discrete; hypergeometric vs. binomial), and in the main case—bivariate binomial experiment—a strategy for providing exact p -values and confidence intervals is proposed. Algorithms implementing the strategy are given.

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  • Lorentz Jäntschi, 2021. "Formulas, Algorithms and Examples for Binomial Distributed Data Confidence Interval Calculation: Excess Risk, Relative Risk and Odds Ratio," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(19), pages 1-24, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:9:y:2021:i:19:p:2506-:d:650958
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