Coverage Properties of the Inverse Sinh Transformation and the Adjusted Wald Confidence Intervals for the Odds Ratio and the Relative Risk.

The inverse sinh transformation on the Woolf interval is used to calculate the confidence interval for the odds ratio and the relative risk in a 2 x 2 table. According to Robert Newcombe, the new interval should improve the coverage probabilities and shorten the width of the confidence interval for...

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Main Author: Bowman, Troy Allen
Format: Others
Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2002
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Online Access:https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/695
https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1852&context=etd