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. 2011 Jan 28;11:13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2288-11-13

Table 1.

Simulation results for n=500, prevalence at 20%.

μ* μ Test ρ=0.0 ρ=0.1 ρ=0.3 ρ=0.5
0.0 0.0 LRT 0.050 0.048 0.053 0.055

Wald 0.048 0.045 0.052 0.053

AUC 0.004 0.004 0.006 0.003

0.1 LRT 0.059 0.057 0.053 0.052

Wald 0.057 0.055 0.052 0.051

AUC 0.003 0.004 0.002 0.005

0.2 LRT 0.048 0.054 0.055 0.049

Wald 0.045 0.051 0.054 0.047

AUC 0.002 0.004 0.001 0.000

0.3 LRT 0.043 0.059 0.052 0.054

Wald 0.043 0.056 0.051 0.051

AUC 0.002 0.001 0.000 0.002

0.1 0.0 LRT 0.217 0.196 0.215 0.259

Wald 0.211 0.191 0.213 0.253

AUC 0.027 0.025 0.040 0.043

0.1 LRT 0.191 0.218 0.232 0.239

Wald 0.187 0.212 0.226 0.237

AUC 0.027 0.024 0.029 0.035

0.2 LRT 0.199 0.203 0.198 0.253

Wald 0.196 0.196 0.195 0.249

AUC 0.021 0.015 0.019 0.022

0.3 LRT 0.179 0.205 0.200 0.259

Wald 0.178 0.205 0.199 0.253

AUC 0.011 0.013 0.012 0.018

0.2 0.0 LRT 0.613 0.615 0.646 0.738

Wald 0.607 0.613 0.643 0.734

AUC 0.196 0.195 0.229 0.294

0.1 LRT 0.614 0.621 0.650 0.736

Wald 0.611 0.618 0.644 0.729

AUC 0.167 0.178 0.203 0.272

0.2 LRT 0.604 0.620 0.640 0.740

Wald 0.600 0.616 0.637 0.735

AUC 0.121 0.121 0.141 0.205

0.3 LRT 0.595 0.623 0.641 0.696

Wald 0.590 0.620 0.637 0.692

AUC 0.096 0.098 0.111 0.153

0.3 0.0 LRT 0.908 0.926 0.942 0.970

Wald 0.908 0.925 0.941 0.969

AUC 0.581 0.586 0.622 0.745

0.1 LRT 0.918 0.915 0.939 0.973

Wald 0.916 0.913 0.936 0.972

AUC 0.533 0.539 0.592 0.699

0.2 LRT 0.910 0.925 0.933 0.971

Wald 0.908 0.922 0.931 0.970

AUC 0.414 0.432 0.496 0.627

0.3 LRT 0.905 0.900 0.937 0.972

Wald 0.903 0.898 0.936 0.970

AUC 0.359 0.362 0.423 0.520

Entries in the table show the power (for μ* > 0) and the test size (for μ*=0) for the likelihood ratio (LRT) and Wald tests from logistic regression and the Delong et al. test comparing the AUCs. Correlation of the new marker and the existing marker, conditional on the outcome, is represented by ρ.