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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2011 Sep 8;23(3):257–278. doi: 10.1177/0962280211407800

Table 5.

Simulation statistics for the estimated mean ratio for the APV (ZINB/logit-log model) and direct (ZINB/log-log model) methods on data generated from the ZINB/logit-log model (φ = 0.5) with continuous covariate, n = 100 per group

Scenario Balance* True Mean Ratio (MR) APV (logit-log) Approach
Direct (log-log) Approach
Ave Est MR Ave PE (%) SD of Est MR Ave SE CP (%) Ave Est MR Ave PE (%) SD of Est MR Ave SE CP (%)


1 B 0.575 0.588 2.17 0.143 0.139 93.9 0.588 2.28 0.144 0.139 93.9


2 0.590 0.601 2.00 0.155 0.149 93.5 0.602 2.08 0.162 0.150 92.3


3 0.239 0.245 2.67 0.082 0.078 91.8 0.245 2.74 0.082 0.078 92.0


4 0.265 0.273 3.09 0.093 0.088 92.0 0.269 1.64 0.095 0.089 90.6


5 1.000 1.024 2.38 0.222 0.217 94.0 1.024 2.43 0.224 0.216 94.1

1 E 0.575 0.603 4.88 0.176 0.172 93.8 0.603 4.93 0.175 0.170 94.0


2 0.590 0.615 4.27 0.176 0.173 94.0 0.604 2.50 0.181 0.165 92.6


3 0.239 0.251 5.08 0.094 0.092 92.2 0.251 5.26 0.094 0.091 92.4


4 0.265 0.276 4.29 0.102 0.099 92.5 0.262 −1.19 0.102 0.091 88.9


5 1.000 1.033 3.26 0.279 0.273 93.4 1.022 2.17 0.267 0.258 93.2

1 U 0.596 0.623 4.38 0.169 0.167 94.3 0.609 2.11 0.172 0.169 93.6


2 0.655 0.675 3.04 0.168 0.168 93.7 0.641 −2.16 0.187 0.168 88.9


3 0.265 0.277 4.67 0.097 0.093 92.2 0.267 0.87 0.097 0.093 90.9


4 0.370 0.384 3.89 0.112 0.105 93.3 0.324 −12.2 0.111 0.098 80.6


5 1.000 1.040 3.97 0.268 0.258 93.9 1.034 3.44 0.274 0.261 93.4
*

B = balanced covariate, E = unbalanced favoring exposed, U = unbalanced favoring unexposed