. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 May 17.

Published in final edited form as: J Neurotrauma. 2002 May;19(5):503–557. doi: 10.1089/089771502753754037

TABLE 2.

Effect of Misclassifications in Dichotomous Outcomes: An Example

	Without misclassifications			With 10% misclassifications
Group	Good	Poor	N	Good	Poor	N
Treatment	240	160	400	232	168	400
Control	210	190	400	208	192	400
Difference (%)	60.0	52.5	7.5^a	58.0	52.0	6.0^b

^ap = 0.033.

^bp = 0.088.