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. 2004 Jun 30;5:18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2350-5-18

Table 4.

Relative bias and RMSE of the estimated disease risks predicted using the full model in the second scenario.

AB NE(c) AB E(d) BB NE

rAB,NE(a) rAB,E(b) Relative risk RMSE Relative risk RMSE Relative risk RMSE
0.2 0.2 0.0127 0.0198 0.0135 0.0434 0.0099 0.0169
0.4 0.0019 0.0191 -0.0015 0.0472 -0.0054 0.0162
0.6 -0.0060 0.0198 -0.0094 0.0517 0.0135 0.0174
0.8 0.0062 0.0204 0.0054 0.0613 0.0206 0.0169
0.6 0.2 0.0177 0.0257 0.0096 0.0454 0.0118 0.0169
0.4 0.0109 0.0256 -0.0049 0.0503 -0.0014 0.0164
0.6 0.0036 0.0266 -0.0194 0.0545 0.0187 0.0174
0.8 0.0155 0.0274 -0.0095 0.0656 0.0281 0.0169
BB E AA NE AA E

rAB,NE rAB,E Relative risk RMSE Relative risk RMSE Relative risk RMSE

0.2 0.2 0.0136 0.0376 0.0017 0.0395 -0.0021 0.0690
0.4 -0.0063 0.0376 -0.0010 0.0399 -0.0104 0.0699
0.6 0.0022 0.0383 0.0022 0.0394 -0.0104 0.0720
0.8 0.0115 0.0395 0.0081 0.0402 -0.0087 0.0755
0.6 0.2 0.0182 0.0383 0.0024 0.0400 -0.0014 0.0706
0.4 -0.0068 0.0377 0.0003 0.0399 -0.0118 0.0714
0.6 -0.0025 0.0385 0.0044 0.0396 -0.0150 0.0731
0.8 -0.0011 0.0390 0.0114 0.0402 -0.0173 0.0744

(a) Proportion of AB individuals not exposed to the environment who get the disease with a very low probability (0.01). (b) Proportion of AB individuals exposed to the environment who get the disease with a very low probability (0.01). (c) Not exposed to the environmental factor. (d) Exposed to the environmental factor.