Table 2.
Coverage probability of 95 % two-sided confidence intervals for α , calculated from the observed information by , in the parametric bootstrap datasets
| Dataset (cases of disease:subjects) | Error function models | Absolute sigmoid models | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N* | Coverage | N* | Coverage | |
| German pertussis FHA IgG (44:1988) | 801 | 0.925 | 1000 | 0.642 |
| German pertussis PT IgG (44:1987) | 595 | 0.797 | 1000 | 0.658 |
| German pertussis PRN IgG (44:1992) | 826 | 0.924 | 1000 | 0.619 |
| German pertussis FIM IgG (44:1986) | 479 | 0.987 | 1000 | 0.711 |
| German pertussis FHA IgA (44:1932) | 194 | 0.866 | 1000 | 0.216 |
| German pertussis PT IgA (44:1933) | 232 | 0.991 | 1000 | 0.225 |
| German pertussis PRN IgA (44:1968) | - | - | 1000 | 0.320 |
| German pertussis FIM IgA (44:1994) | 656 | 0.942 | 999 | 0.650 |
| Piedra RSV/A (34:175) | - | - | 964 | 0.773 |
| Piedra RSV/B (34:175) | - | - | 877 | 0.814 |
| White/Varicella (79:3459) | 998 | 0.921 | 1000 | 0.941 |
| Swedish pertussis FHA IgG (92:209) | - | - | - | - |
| Swedish pertussis PT IgG (92:209) | 846 | 0.953 | 969 | 0.829 |
| Swedish pertussis PRN IgG (92:209) | 951 | 0.930 | 1000 | 0.744 |
| Swedish pertussis FIM IgG (92:209) | 697 | 0.811 | 991 | 0.772 |
| Black Nicolay HAI (22:777) | 790 | 0.934 | 1000 | 0.614 |
* number of bootstrap datasets for which MLEs were found