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Table 1 Average type I and type II error rate of simulated hospitals with SIR values ranging from 0.5 to 1.5, using our proposed method

From: Sample size calculations for indirect standardization

True SIR

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

1.0

Type I Error Rate

0.0\(\%\)

0.0\(\%\)

0.0\(\%\)

0.0\(\%\)

0.003\(\%\)

2.5\(\%\)

True SIR

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

1.5

 

Type II Error Rate

70.9\(\%\)

20.0\(\%\)

1.7\(\%\)

0.01\(\%\)

0.0\(\%\)