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Table 5 Rating of tests by subgroups for stroke/TIA 4-level (35 comparator datasets)

From: Statistical reanalysis of vascular event outcomes in primary and secondary vascular prevention trials

Subgroup

Comparator datasets

P-value

Rating of tests relative to each other

MWU

Adj. OLR

WR

OLR

BS

Adj. MLR

Adj. BLR

Adj. CPH

TT

CAT

CPH

MT

CSB

CSO

CSF

Trial type

 Primary

15

< 0.0001

1

6

3

7

8

4

9

12

5

2

11

10

13

15

14

Secondary

20

< 0.0001

1

4

5

3

2

9

10

12

6

8

11

7

14

13

15

Main Intervention

 ACT

10

0.0089

1

9

3

7

10

5

6

11

4

2

8

14

13

12

15

 AHT

6

0.011

3

9

7

8

1

4

6

10

2

5

11

13

12

15

14

 APT

10

< 0.0001

1

2

9

3

4

7

12

11

6

8

10

5

14

13

15

 CEA

2

< 0.0001

5

3

6

4

1

7

11

14

8

9

13

2

12

10

15

 HRT

2

0.35

4

2

1

5

10

3

12

6

7

8

11

9

13

15

14

 Statins

4

0.0011

1

3

4

2

6

9

12

8

11

7

10

5

13

14

15

  1. The numbers in bold represent the tests are the most efficient and do not differ statistically from one another. The P-value is from the results of the Friedman ANOVA. The order of the rating of test is based on the mean rank calculated by the Duncan’s multiple range test; the most efficient test (i.e. the test with the smallest mean rank) is rated the best with a score of 1 and the least efficient with a score of 15
  2. Abbreviations
  3. ACT: anticoagulants; Adj.: adjusted; AHT: antihypertensives; APT: antiplatelets; BLR: binary logistic regression; BS: bootstrapping; CAT: Cochran-Armitage Trend test; CEA: carotid Endarterectomy; CPH: Cox proportional hazards; CSB: Chi-square binary event outcome; CSF: Chi-square binary fatal event outcome; CSO: Chi-square ordinal event outcome; HRT: hormone replacement therapy; MWU: Mann-Whitney U test; MT: median test; MLR: multiple linear regression; OLR: ordinal logistic regression; TT: t-test; Vascular: combination of stroke and MI; WR: win ratio test