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16), Lipsitz et al. (1998) propose three other weighted test statistics as well. However, test procedures using these statistics are generally conservative when the stratum sizes are small (Lui and Kelly, 2000). 3 Consider the all-cause mortality data from six trials comparing aspirin (i = 1) with placebo (i = 0) in post-myocardial infarction patients (Canner, 1987). , 1979) (s = 4), the Persantine-Aspirin Reinfarction Study (1980) (s = 5), and the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study (1980) (s = 6).

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First, consider the most commonly used interval estimator based on the WLS ˆ j ˆ ∗j / W ˆ j , where W ˆ j = Var( ˆ ∗j )−1 = (λˆ 1j /n∗1j + point estimator ˆ ∗WLS = W ∗ −1 λˆ 0j /n0j ) . Thus, we obtain an approximately 100(1 − α) percent confidence interval for ∗c given by ˆ j, W ˆ ∗WLS − Zα/2 ˆj . 45) will likely not perform well.

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