On the bias and variance of odds ratio, relative risk and false discovery proportion

This paper develops a method to calculate the moments of statistical ratios as functionals of Bernoulli random variables via inverse moments of binomial distributions. We derive exact expressions for the mean, bias and variance formulas of several statistics, including the "modified" versi...

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Published in:Communications in statistics. Theory and methods 2022-10, Vol.51 (19), p.6883-6908
Main Authors: Pang, Guodong, Alemayehu, Demissie, de la Peña, Victor, Klass, Michael J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bias
false discovery proportion
inverse moments
mean and variance formulas
odds ratio
Random variables
Ratios
relative risk
Risk
Variance
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Summary:This paper develops a method to calculate the moments of statistical ratios as functionals of Bernoulli random variables via inverse moments of binomial distributions. We derive exact expressions for the mean, bias and variance formulas of several statistics, including the "modified" versions of the odds ratio and relative risk as well as the (positive) false discovery proportion (FDP), in which the case of zero cells is handled via indicator functions. Similar to the "positive" FDP, we introduce the "positive" odds ratio and relative risk statistics. We provide numerical examples to illustrate the biases and variances of these statistical ratios.
ISSN:0361-0926
1532-415X
DOI:10.1080/03610926.2020.1867744