Test for Homogeneity of Odds Ratios Using <i>U</i>-Statistics

• 作者: Dejian Lai Qi Wei
• 来源期刊: 统计学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: HOMOGENEITY TEST Odds Ratio U-STATISTICS
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（3）
• 页码范围: 347-360
• 页数: 14页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

There are a few statistics testing the homogeneity of odds ratios across strata. Asymptotic statistics lose their power in the “sparse-data” setting. Both asymptotic statistics and exact tests have low power when the sample sizes are small. We created a set of U statistics and compared them with some existing statistics in testing homogeneity of OR at different data settings. We evaluated their performance in terms of the empirical size and power via Monto Carlo simulations. Our results showed that two of the U-statistics under our study had higher power for testing homogeneity of odds ratios for 2 by 2 contingency tables. The application of the tests was illustrated in two real examples.