Accurate Confidence Intervals for the Ratio of Specific Occurrence/Exposure Rates in Risk and Survival Analysis
- 18 January 1995
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Biometrical Journal
- Vol. 37 (5) , 611-626
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.4710370510
Abstract
Transformation and computer intensive methods such as the jackknife and bootstrap are applied to construct accurate confidence intervals for the ratio of specific occurrence/exposure rates, which are used to compare the mortality (or survival) experience of individuals in two study populations. Monte Carlo simulations are employed to compare the performances of the proposed confidence intervals when sample sizes are small or moderate.Keywords
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