Simulation of non-differential misclassification of disease under (near-) perfect specificity
Parameters
Seed type
Random (system clock)
Fixed (reproducible simulations)
Number of iterations
1,000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
Study size
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
Risk in the unexposed
True risk ratio
Sensitivity of disease classification
Specificity of disease classification
Exposure prevalence
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Unbiased range
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Bias parameter distributions
Sensitivity
Specificity
Simulation results
Distribution of observed true risk ratios
Distribution of misclassified risk ratios
Delta scatter plot: bias factor as a function of departure from non-differential sensitivity and specificity (Δ)
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