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Table 1 Empirical coverage of 95% confidence intervals for the treatment group mean after multiple imputation by PMM

From: Multiple imputation by predictive mean matching in cluster-randomized trials

ICC

Cluster size

Clusters

PMM

PMM

PMM

PMM

PMM

PMM

ρ

m

k

FE

dist

RE

draw

avg

IGN

0.03

4

100

99.0

98.2

98.7

95.1

95.4

95.5

 

8

10

99.5

98.1

98.1

97.5

96.7

97.1

  

20

98.4

96.6

96.8

94.9

94.9

95.2

  

40

98.9

97.8

97.5

95.6

95.3

95.4

 

40

10

98.9

98.4

98.9

96.1

94.9

94.4

  

20

98.3

98.0

98.1

94.5

92.3

91.7

  

40

98.0

98.0

98.2

94.0

92.1

91.0

 

400

4

97.5

97.3

98.1

96.2

95.5

89.9

0.08

4

100

98.7

98.6

98.2

94.9

94.8

95.0

 

8

10

98.9

97.5

98.0

96.7

95.0

96.0

  

20

97.9

97.1

96.9

93.9

92.3

93.6

  

40

98.9

98.7

98.2

95.0

93.7

94.2

 

40

10

97.9

97.7

98.7

95.3

93.9

90.2

  

20

97.6

97.4

97.6

93.8

92.8

86.9

  

40

97.5

97.3

97.8

94.2

92.5

88.0

 

400

4

96.7

96.6

97.6

96.2

96.2

86.1

  1. Bolded values indicate coverage rates below 95%.
  2. Italicized values indicate coverage rates above 95%.
  3. Missing data were generated completely at random (MCAR) with a response rate of 60%, and data were imputed using an imputation model that correctly specified the covariate effects.