Skip to main content
. 2011 Apr 15;20(2):93–104. doi: 10.1002/mpr.337

Table 5.

Sensitivity analysis of the impact of varying assumptions about the size of the correlation between measurement errors in abuse reports on estimated model parameters

Size of correlation between measurement errors in abuse reports (E1, E2) Correlations between true abuse status and mental health Bias in abuse reports due to mental health
Sexual abuse Physical abuse Sexual abuse Physical abuse
0.00 0.29, 0.31 0.16, 0.17 0.09–0.10 0.03
0.10 0.31, 0.32 0.17, 0.18 0.09–0.10 0.03
0.20 0.34, 0.36 0.19, 0.20 0.09–0.10 0.03
0.30 0.39, 0.42 0.21, 0.23 0.09–0.10 0.03