Research Article

Censored Data Analysis Reveals Effects of Age and Hepatitis C Infection on C-Reactive Protein Levels in Healthy Adult Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Table 6

Expected hsCRP level (mg/L), by HCV status, in 7 CDA datasets.

DatasetHCV negativeHCV-infected

Kaplan-Meier standard0.790.30
Casewise deletion1.010.65
Substitution: QL0.850.49
Substitution: QL/20.810.35
Substitution: Zero0.410.02
MLE 0.830.39
Multiple imputation0.890.42

Expected mean level of hsCRP (mg/L), by HCV infections status (not infected, infected). All datasets detected significant group differences, but resulted in different expected group means. Numbers for the KM standard refer to estimated median levels. All others refer to estimated means.