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<Articles JournalTitle="Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>2383-4196</Issn>
      <Volume>11</Volume>
      <Issue>1</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>15</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">Robust Neighborhood Confidence Interval and Width to Evaluate the Outcome of a Binary Random Variable of Unequal Cluster Sizes</title>
    <FirstPage>115</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>132</LastPage>
    <Language>EN</Language>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Tareef Fadhil</FirstName>
        <LastName>Raham</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Warith Al-Anbiyaa University - Iraq</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Zaher</FirstName>
        <LastName>Raham</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Nahrain university-  Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research -Iraq</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Abdulkhaleq</FirstName>
        <LastName>Ali Ghalib Al-Naqeeb</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Medical &amp; Health Technology College, Baghdad-Iraq</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2024</Year>
        <Month>12</Month>
        <Day>23</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2025</Year>
        <Month>03</Month>
        <Day>03</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Bachground :While the main advantage of the confidence interval is that it enables more precise evaluations when the risk for the outcome of interest is related to the cluster size, the predicted confidence interval width demonstrates the degree of variability in the future data instead.
Methods :&#xA0;We present a novel algorithm to create an intra&#x2010;cluster&#xA0;robust neighborhood&#xA0;confidence interval and width for each cluster to rank the widths from the narrowest to the widest width to determine each cluster's predicted variability and evaluate the corresponding observed values. An example was developed that assesses the finite&#x2010;sample behavior of this new method.
Results : Robust neighborhood&#xA0;intra-cluster predicted CI width was obtained &#xA0;&#xA0;for interpreting&#xA0;results &#xA0;of &#xA0;binary unequal sizes data.&#xA0;Narrow confidence intervals CI&#xA0;bounds suggest the results are not subjected to a high degree of random variations.
Conclusions: Intra-cluster predicted robust neighborhood&#xA0;CI and its corresponding width is a useful instrument in binary&#xA0;outcome unequal cluster sizes data as a method of analysis.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://jbe.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jbe/article/view/1548</web_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
