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  • 1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset, Windsor, ON, Canada N9B 3P4. smjp@uwindsor.ca

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Area of Science:

  • Epidemiology
  • Biostatistics
  • Statistical Modeling

Background:

  • Risk difference (RD) is crucial for comparing disease probability between exposed and control groups in epidemiological studies.
  • Challenges arise in cluster sampling due to varying cluster sizes and non-independent binary responses within clusters.
  • Existing methods for confidence intervals of RD in cluster sampling, such as those by Lui (2004), have limitations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and evaluate two novel, simple methods for constructing confidence intervals for RD under cluster sampling.
  • To compare the performance of these new methods against existing approaches using simulation studies.
  • To identify the most effective and easily implementable method for RD confidence interval estimation.

Main Methods:

  • One proposed method utilizes an estimator of the variance of a ratio estimator.
  • The second method employs a sandwich estimator for the variance of a regression estimator via generalized estimating equations (GEE).
  • Simulation studies were conducted to compare coverage probability and average coverage length against four methods by Lui (2004).

Main Results:

  • Both newly proposed methods demonstrated comparable or superior performance to existing methods in simulations.
  • The method based on the variance of a ratio estimator exhibited the best overall performance.
  • This preferred method features a simple variance expression and minimal computational requirements.

Conclusions:

  • The two introduced methods provide viable alternatives for calculating confidence intervals for RD in cluster sampling scenarios.
  • The ratio estimator-based method is particularly recommended due to its simplicity, effectiveness, and ease of implementation.
  • This research offers practical advancements for epidemiological risk difference analysis in complex sampling designs.