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. 2013 Apr 4;177(9):904–912. doi: 10.1093/aje/kws340

Table 4.

Bias, 95% Confidence Interval Coverage, and Mean Squared Error for Simulation Studiesa Under 9 Scenarios for Nondifferential Misclassification

Sensitivity Specificity Sample Size Validation Percentb Naive
Validation
Direct Maximum Likelihood
Multiple Imputation
Biasc Coverd MSEe Bias Cover MSE Bias Cover MSE Bias Cover MSE
0.9 0.9 1,000 10 24 62 8 −5 96 47 −4 96 33 2 97 27
1,000 30 24 62 8 −1 95 10 −1 95 6 −1 95 6
300 30 24 85 13 −5 96 47 −4 96 42 2 97 27
0.6 0.9 1,000 10 35 40 15 −5 96 47 −5 96 48 −3 96 29
1,000 30 35 40 15 −1 95 10 −1 95 8 −1 95 8
300 30 35 76 21 −5 96 47 −4 96 48 −3 96 33
0.3 0.9 1,000 10 51 20 30 −5 96 47 −5 96 54 −4 95 35
1,000 30 51 20 30 −1 95 10 −1 95 9 −1 95 9
300 30 51 66 38 −5 96 47 −5 96 58 −3 96 37

Abbreviation: MSE, mean squared error.

a Results are summarized over 10,000 simulations.

b Percent of all participants included in the validation subgroup.

c Bias was defined as 100 times the difference between the average estimated log odds ratio and the true log odds ratio.

d Confidence interval coverage was calculated as the percentage of simulations in which the estimated 95% Wald-type confidence limits included the true value.

e MSE was calculated as the sum of the bias squared and the variance.