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Record W2019743290 · doi:10.1186/1471-2288-12-126

Bias-corrected estimator for intraclass correlation coefficient in the balanced one-way random effects model

2012· article· en· W2019743290 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBMC Medical Research Methodology · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMathematics
TopicStatistical Methods and Inference
Canadian institutionsInstitute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesMcMaster UniversityHospital for Sick ChildrenPublic Health OntarioSickKids FoundationUniversity of TorontoPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre
FundersHospital for Sick Children
KeywordsEstimatorIntraclass correlationStatisticsMean squared errorBias of an estimatorContext (archaeology)MathematicsMinimum-variance unbiased estimatorVariance (accounting)Random effects modelEfficient estimatorConsistent estimatorEconometricsMeta-analysisMedicinePsychometrics

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) are used in a wide range of applications. However, most commonly used estimators for the ICC are known to be subject to bias. METHODS: Using second order Taylor series expansion, we propose a new bias-corrected estimator for one type of intraclass correlation coefficient, for the ICC that arises in the context of the balanced one-way random effects model. A simulation study is performed to assess the performance of the proposed estimator. Data have been generated under normal as well as non-normal scenarios. RESULTS: Our simulation results show that the new estimator has reduced bias compared to the least square estimator which is often referred to as the conventional or analytical estimator. The results also show marked bias reduction both in normal and non-normal data scenarios. In particular, our estimator outperforms the analytical estimator in a non-normal setting producing estimates that are very close to the true ICC values. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed bias-corrected estimator for the ICC from a one-way random effects analysis of variance model appears to perform well in the scenarios we considered in this paper and can be used as a motivation to construct bias-corrected estimators for other types of ICCs that arise in more complex scenarios. It would also be interesting to investigate the bias-variance trade-off.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.082
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.679
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.681
Threshold uncertainty score0.946

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0820.679
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.702
GPT teacher head0.587
Teacher spread0.115 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it