2010/4/1 Roman Kasal <kasal@trexima.cz>:
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> but it ignores unpaired data :(
And it should. Data (x,y) (1,2) (2,4) (3,6) (100,.) will give an
entirely different view of the data if the unpaired observation is
included in a mean or ratio calculation. Or consider data with x
missing in half the pairs and y missing in the other half; the ratio
of means would be meaningless.
The formulas for standard errors for ratios assume that the data are
paired. Formally, they are based on the residual MSE of a regression
of y on x through the origin. You cannot do that regression with
unpaired data.
If your concern is missing data, the solution is to impute the missing
values before analysis.
Steve
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