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Table 4 Profile Likelihood 95% confidence intervals for ERR at estimated critical values of

From: Reanalysis of cancer mortality in Japanese A-bomb survivors exposed to low doses of radiation: bootstrap and simulation methods

site

Ï•m

t.95

ERR1

ERR0.025

ERR1

ERR0.025

ERR1

ERR0.025

stom

11.89

10

(0.08,1.02)

(0.06,0.93)

9.72

(0.08,1.01)

(0.06,0.92)

8.16

(0.11,0.95)

(0.08,0.87)

liver

36.90

10

(0.38,3.21)

(0.19,2.59)

8.59

(0.44,3.05)

(0.23,2.45)

8.28

(0.46,3.01)

(0.25,2.42)

lung

13.60

10

(0.07,3.89)

(0.08,3.87)

9.44

(0.08,3.75)

(0.10,3.74)

8.48

(0.11,3.52)

(0.12,3.50)

panc

11.86

10

(0.48,-)

(0.38,-)

9.03

(0.60,-)

(0.49,-)

8.79

(0.64,-)

(0.52,-)

leuk

23.66

10

(-0.21,8.20)

(0.03,6.46)

7.93

(-0.09,7.05)

(0.06,5.51)

7.58

(-0.07,6.86)

(0.06,5.35)

  1. t.95, and : conservative, global and refined estimates of the 95% critical value of LRT for the hypothesis H0: (β, σ, τ) = (β0,σ0,τ0) vs. the alternative (β, σ, τ) ≠ (β0,σ0,τ0). See Methods.