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. 2017 Jul 14;17:103. doi: 10.1186/s12874-017-0375-8

Table 3.

Estimated calibration in the validation set (observed:expected (O:E) ratio) across fifteen different simulated scenarios

Scenario Method
Reference: untreated Ignore treatment Exclude treated IPW IPW, exclude IPWtrunc exclude
1 1.00 (0.09) 0.76 (0.07) 1.01 (0.13) 0.79 (0.09) 1.00 (0.13) 1.00 (0.12)
2 1.00 (0.09) 0.79 (0.07) 1.00 (0.11) 0.79 (0.07) 1.00 (0.11) 1.00 (0.11)
3 1.01 (0.09) 0.69 (0.07) 1.00 (0.13) 0.76 (0.09) 1.00 (0.13) 1.00 (0.12)
4 1.00 (0.09) 0.72 (0.07) 1.01 (0.16) 0.74 (0.30) 0.98 (0.44) 1.00 (0.17)
5 1.00 (0.09) 0.80 (0.08) 1.00 (0.13) 0.68 (0.07) 1.00 (0.10) 1.00 (0.10)
6 1.00 (0.09) 0.87 (0.08) 1.01 (0.10) 0.79 (0.08) 1.00 (0.10) 1.00 (0.10)
7 1.00 (0.09) 0.96 (0.09) 1.01 (0.10) 0.93 (0.10) 1.00 (0.10) 1.00 (0.10)
8 1.00 (0.09) 0.63 (0.06) 1.01 (0.12) 0.68 (0.08) 1.00 (0.13) 1.00 (0.12)
9 1.00 (0.09) 0.91 (0.08) 1.01 (0.12) 0.92 (0.09) 1.00 (0.13) 1.00 (0.12)
10 1.00 (0.09) 0.49 (0.06) 1.00 (0.17) 0.68 (0.11) 1.00 (0.20) 1.00 (0.18)
11 1.00 (0.09) 0.66 (0.07) 1.00 (0.17) 0.79 (0.11) 1.00 (0.20) 1.00 (0.18)
12 1.01 (0.09) 0.88 (0.08) 1.01 (0.17) 0.92 (0.12) 1.00 (0.20) 1.00 (0.18)
13 1.00 (0.09) 0.75 (0.07) 0.90 (0.12) 0.76 (0.08) 0.87 (0.12) 0.88 (0.11)
14 1.00 (0.09) 0.74 (0.07) 0.70 (0.10) 0.72 (0.07) 0.67 (0.10) 0.67 (0.09)
15 1.00 (0.09) 0.76 (0.07) 0.39 (0.07) 0.74 (0.07) 0.38 (0.07) 0.38 (0.07)

Abbreviations: Exclude: exclusion of treated individuals from the analysis; IPW inverse (treatment) probability weighting; IPW trunc IPW with weight truncation at 98th percentile