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. 2024 Feb 5;15:1069. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45152-y

Fig. 2. Relative efficiency of geographic pair matching compared to an unmatched design in the Bangladesh and Kenya WASH Benefits trials.

Fig. 2

a Paired outcome correlation across geographically matched pairs (n = 90 in Bangladesh, n = 72 in Kenya), translated into predicted relative efficiency for 14 child development, child growth, and infectious disease outcomes. Dashed lines show the (1-r)−1 function, the predicted relationship between pair-wise correlation (r) and relative efficiency. b Observed relative efficiency of a the non-parametric, pair matched estimator versus gains predicted based on the paired outcome correlation in panel a. The observed relative efficiency used an unmatched analysis as the basis for comparison (Methods). A solid line marks the 1:1 axis. Correlation estimates based on outcomes weighted by sample sizes of each pair. MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) comprehension and expression were only measured in the Bangladesh trial. Created with notebooks https://osf.io/pdver and https://osf.io/d2x3b.