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Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2023 Jun 14;42(20):3685–3698. doi: 10.1002/sim.9825

TABLE 1.

The mean, median, and standard deviation (SD) of $\hat{K}$ , the percentage (per) of $\hat{K}$ equal to the true number of subgroups, and the Rand Index (RI) value by our method with $m = 50,100$ in Examples 1 to 3, respectively.

	m	mean	median	SD	per	RI
Example 1	50	3.08	3.00	0.339	0.91	0.960
Example 1	100	3.05	3.00	0.261	0.93	0.969
Example 2	50	8.23	8.00	1.362
Example 2	100	9.43	9.00	1.653
Example 3	50	4.06	4.00	0.343	0.91	0.963
Example 3	100	4.04	4.00	0.281	0.92	0.970