Table 2 The proportion of times the observed number of events or more occurred according to the expected number of events when the incidence in the oldest age group is 500 times the incidence in the youngest age group
From: Evaluation of stability of directly standardized rates for sparse data using simulation methods
Observed number of events | Expected number of events | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
Proportion of times the observed number of events or more occurred | |||||
None | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
1 | 63.1 | 86.9 | 95.1 | 98.3 | 99.5 |
2 | 26.8 | 60.0 | 79.8 | 91.2 | 96.2 |
3 | 7.8 | 33.1 | 57.3 | 76.5 | 88.1 |
4 | 1.8 | 14.7 | 35.1 | 56.7 | 73.2 |
5 | 0.3 | 5.5 | 18.1 | 36.8 | 55.5 |
6 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 7.9 | 21.3 | 38.3 |
7 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 3.2 | 10.7 | 24.5 |
8 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 4.9 | 13.7 | |
9 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 7.2 | |
10 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 3.3 | |
11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.5 | |
12 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | ||
13 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | ||
14 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |||
15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |||
16 | 0.0 | ||||