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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2012 Jan;23(1):151–158. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31823b539c

Table 2.

Mean squared errors of the OR and CI width for the OR from simulation study of the probabilistic bias analysis and Bayesian approaches to correcting for misclassification.

Truth: p1=.6 Truth: p1=.8
Bayes Probabilistic bias analysis Bayes Probabilistic bias analysis
Vaguely Informative
 MSE 0.14 0.40 0.02 0.07
 Widtha 12.3 5.1 11.4 5.9
Weakly Informative
 MSE 0.04 0.19 0.04 0.03
 Width a 14.6 6.9 10.4 5.8
Highly Informative
 MSE 0.09 0.07 0.03 0.03
 Width a 7.0 4.4 1.6 1.4
a

The difference between the upper and lower bounds of the 95% CI for the OR