8 weeks 

Baseline

4 weeks

 (1)  

 (2)  

 (3)   

(1)

(1)

77

7

1 

 

 

(77.00)

(8.53)

(0.22) 

(2)

(1)

43

7

0 

 

 

(39.80)

(9.35)

(0.13) 

(3)

(1)

3

0

0 

 

 

(4.72)

(0.60)

(0.02) 

(1)

(2)

3

8

1 

 

 

(4.67)

(7.69)

(0.74) 

(2)

(2)

17

16

5 

 

 

(14.96)

(16.00)

(3.30) 

(3)

(2)

3

8

1 

 

 

(2.80)

(6.42)

(0.70) 

(1)

(3)

1

1

1 

 

 

(0.07)

(0.41)

(0.59) 

(2)

(3)

0

2

3 

 

 

(0.33)

(5.28)

(4.03) 

(3)

(3)

0

4

3 

 

 

(0.39)

(3.27)

(3.00) 


The response categories are (1) ≥10 g/dl, (2) 8 − 10 g/dl, (3) < 8 g/dl.
Table 2: Hemoglobin concentration at baseline, 4 weeks and 8 weeks in carcinomatous anemia patients from a randomized clinical trial; from Tahata et al. [5]. (Parenthesized values are the maximum likelihood estimates of expected frequencies under the model).