TABLE 1.

The empirical coverage probabilities (CovP) of the 95% confidence intervals and the median lengths (Length) of the various methods in the rare-event rate setting and moderate study-specific sample sizes

(1a) α0 = 1.2,β0=75
	K = 5	K = 10	K = 15	K = 20
Method	CovP (Length)	CovP (Length)	CovP (Length)	CovP (Length)
Exact	0.962 (0.040)	0.954 (0.028)	0.958 (0.023)	0.950 (0.019)
MOM	0.821 (0.025)	0.85 (0.018)	0.876 (0.016)	0.900 (0.014)
DL-LGT	0.882 (0.032)	0.848 (0.021)	0.831 (0.017)	0.841 (0.015)
SJ-LGT	0.958 (0.037)	0.958 (0.023)	0.961 (0.019)	0.970 (0.016)
DL-ASIN	0.792 (0.026)	0.751 (0.018)	0.699 (0.015)	0.648 (0.013)
SJ-ASIN	0.822 (0.028)	0.781 (0.019)	0.734 (0.016)	0.684 (0.014)
FE	0.890 (0.024)	0.790 (0.015)	0.788 (0.011)	0.786 (0.010)
(1b) α0 = 3.6,β0=30
	K = 5	K = 10	K = 15	K = 20
Method	CovP (Length)	CovP (Length)	CovP (Length)	CovP (Length)
Exact	0.978 (0.039)	0.98 (0.025)	0.976 (0.018)	0.971 (0.015)
MOM	0.874 (0.024)	0.903 (0.015)	0.920 (0.012)	0.920 (0.011)
DL-LGT	0.898 (0.031)	0.837 (0.019)	0.769 (0.015)	0.714 (0.012)
SJ-LGT	0.959 (0.034)	0.961 (0.021)	0.964 (0.017)	0.958 (0.014)
DL-ASIN	0.858 (0.025)	0.840 (0.017)	0.812 (0.014)	0.776 (0.012)
SJ-ASIN	0.878 (0.028)	0.877 (0.019)	0.854 (0.015)	0.814 (0.013)
FE	0.948 (0.026)	0.914 (0.015)	0.905 (0.011)	0.906 (0.010)