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Confidence intervals for assessing equivalence of two treatments with combined unilateral and bilateral data

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  • Shi-Fang Qiu
  • Ji-Ran Tao

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Responses from the paired organs are generally highly correlated in bilateral studies, statistical procedures ignoring the correlation could lead to incorrect results. Note the intraclass correlation in the study of combined unilateral and bilateral outcomes; 11 confidence intervals (CIs) including 7 asymptotic CIs and 4 Bootstrap-resampling CIs for assessing the equivalence of 2 treatments are derived under Rosner's correlated binary data model. Performance is evaluated with respect to the empirical coverage probability (ECP), the empirical coverage width (ECW) and the ratio of the mesial non-coverage probability to the non-coverage probability (RMNCP) via simulation studies. Simulation results show that (i) all CIs except for the Wald CI and the bias-corrected Bootstrap percentile CI generally produce satisfactory ECPs and hence are recommended; (ii) all CIs except for the bias-corrected Bootstrap percentile CI provide preferred RMNCPs and are more symmetrical; (iii) as the measurement of the dependence increases, the ECWs of all CIs except for the score CI and the profile likelihood CI show increasing patterns that look like linear, while there is no obvious pattern on the ECPs of all CIs except for the profile likelihood CI. A data set from an otolaryngologic study is used to illustrate the proposed methods.

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  • Shi-Fang Qiu & Ji-Ran Tao, 2022. "Confidence intervals for assessing equivalence of two treatments with combined unilateral and bilateral data," Journal of Applied Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(13), pages 3414-3435, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:japsta:v:49:y:2022:i:13:p:3414-3435
    DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2021.1949440
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    1. Shuyi Liang & Kai-Tai Fang & Xin-Wei Huang & Yijing Xin & Chang-Xing Ma, 2024. "Homogeneity tests and interval estimations of risk differences for stratified bilateral and unilateral correlated data," Statistical Papers, Springer, vol. 65(6), pages 3499-3543, August.

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