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. 2008 Dec 16;8:80. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-8-80

Table 3.

Coverage probability of the Wald 95% confidence interval of PR for delta method and bootstrap varying the degree of correlation, number and size of clusters.

Sample
Size
ICC = 0.03 ICC = 0.29 ICC = 0.71

Delta Bootstrap Delta Bootstrap Delta Bootstrap
Number of clusters = 10
m = 10 94.7% 88.3% 92.7% 88.0% 95.0% 87.3%
m = 30 93.7% 93.0% 91.7% 88.3% 92.0% 89.0%
Number of clusters = 30
m = 10 95.3% 94.0% 90.3% 91.0% 93.3% 92.0%
m = 30 92.3% 90.0% 94.0% 93.3% 94.0% 93.6%
Number of clusters = 100
m = 10 94.3% 94.3% 92.7% 94.0% 91.8% 92.5%
m = 30 93.9% 92.9% 95.7% 95.3% 95.0% 94.3%