Table 2 Summary of various abbreviations
From: Confidence intervals construction for difference of two means with incomplete correlated data
Abbreviation | Definition |
|---|---|
T 1 | CI based on T 1 statistic |
T 2 | CI based on T 2 statistic |
T 3 | CI based on T 3 statistic |
T 4 | CI based on T 4 statistic |
T 5 | CI based on T 5 statistic |
T g | CI based on GEE method |
W s | CI based on Wilson score method |
W a | CI based on Agresti-coull method |
B 1 | Simple Bootstrap CI based on |
\(\hat \delta =a\overline {x}_{1}^{(n)}+\left (1-a\right)\overline {x}_{1}^{(n_{1})}-b\overline {x}_{2}^{(n)}-(1-b)\overline {x}_{2}^{(n_{2})}\) | |
B 2 | Simple Bootstrap CI based on \(\hat {\delta }=\bar {x}_{1}^{(n+n_{1})}-\bar {x}_{2}^{(n+n_{2})}\) |
B 3 | Percentile Bootstrap CI based on |
\(\hat \delta =a\overline {x}_{1}^{(n)}+(1-a)\overline {x}_{1}^{(n_{1})}-b\overline {x}_{2}^{(n)}-(1-b)\overline {x}_{2}^{(n_{2})}\) | |
B 4 | Percentile Bootstrap CI based on \(\hat {\delta }=\bar {x}_{1}^{(n+n_{1})}-\bar {x}_{2}^{(n+n_{2})}\) |
ECPs | Empirical coverage probabilities, is defined by Eq. (3) |
ECW | Empirical confidence widths, is defined by Eq. (3) |
RNCP | The ratio of the mesial non-coverage probabilities to the |