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Table 5 Proportion of times that the null hypothesis of no difference in discharge probabilities is rejected, using an α = 0.05 significance level

From: How to handle mortality when investigating length of hospital stay and time to clinical stability

		Test
HR_dis	HR_mor	$χ_{C I_{d i s}}^{2}$	$χ_{W_{d i s}}^{2}$	$χ_{K M_{d i s}}^{2}$	$χ_{R_{d i s}}^{2}$
1.0	1.0	0.048	0.047	0.049	0.054
	1.15	0.064	0.061	0.055	0.062
	1.5	0.128	0.120	0.048	0.362
1.15	1.0	0.553	0.544	0.583	0.505
	0.67	0.772	0.772	0.601	0.137
	0.87	0.652	0.644	0.603	0.339
	1.15	0.470	0.462	0.577	0.681
	1.5	0.256	0.248	0.577	0.946

HR_dis = hazard ratio of discharge; HR_mor = hazard ratio of mortality

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