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. 2017 May 5;8(7):231–244. doi: 10.1177/2042098617704143

Table 3.

Simulation aimed at assessing the effect of the respective allocation of reports containing both A and B to the products A and B, respectively. The nij represent the number of reports in the database. ROUND is the expression representing the rounding of the number to the nearest integer (natural number).

Event (E) of interest Other events Total
Product A n11
1; 3; 5; 10; 50; 100; 1000; 10,000
n1.n11= n12
5; 10; 50; 100; 500; 1000; 5000; 10,000
n1.
Reports containing both A and B ROUND[%min(n11, n21)]
% = 0, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%
ROUND[%min(n12, n22)]
% = 0, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%
Product B (masking) n21
5; 10; 50; 100; 500; 1000; 10,000
n22
20; 50; 100; 250; 500; 1000; 5000; 10,000
%n2.
All other products in the database (excluding both A and B) n31
100; 1000; 5000; 10,000
n32
2000; 10,000; 100,000; 1,000,000
n 3.
Total n .1 n..n.1 = n.2 n ..