Re: st: equivalence tests

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

I am again, probably temporarily, on Statalist so ...

As I have said before, there are at least 2 bugs in equim/equip:
(1) the lower limit of the t-based confidence interval is wrong

(2) the results are nonsense when the actual delta is smaller
than the selected delta

Further, as I have said before, I am not interested in these
techniques and will not be fixing the programs.

I was recently contacted, privately, by someone who expressed
interest in fixing up the programs -- this person may or may
not end up doing so and, of course, I know nothing about the
timing for this work.

At present, I recommend that those who want these techniques
use some other software (e.g., equivtest from statistical
solutions).

Rich Goldstein

Cathy L. Antonakos wrote:
> > Celine Genty wrote:
> >
> > How can I do equivalence tests for means and for proportions ?
>
> There is a message on "Equivalence Testing" in the Stata archive, Jan 14 
> 2004, that mentions problems with -equim- or -equip-. I could not 
> resolve the results in the STB Reprint Vol. 3 pp. 107-112, STB-17, sg21 
> (R. Goldstein) when I applied formulas from a paper I was given by a 
> client (Hwang, IK & Morikawa T. 1999. Design issues in 
> noninferioirty/equivalence trials. Drug Information Journal, vol. 33, 
> pp. 1205-1218).
>
> I wound up using formulas in Excel based on the Hwang & Morikawa paper 
> (and still had trouble getting reasonable results, possibly based on a 
> narrow equivalence interval, or lack of clarification in the paper).
>
> There is also the Bland & Altman method. The reference is Bland JM, 
> Altman DG. 1986. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two 
> methods of clinical measurement. Lancet i, 307-310.
>
> Cathy Antonakos
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