Table 17.

Average time elapsed (in seconds) to run each of the considered methods across the 50 data sets of size simulated from each generating component distribution. The first row shows the number of parameters (q) estimated per method, and the last row is the average run time across all scenarios

	Considered method
Generating distribution	MPTMSCN	MMTMSCN	MCN	MMSCN	MPTCN
q	47	47	31	39	39
PTMSCN	442.53	113.82	1.23	38.78	95.93
MTMSCN	142.17	46.09	0.26	95.54	73.41
CN	124.20	50.11	0.26	84.66	56.16
MSCN	130.27	52.59	0.26	84.67	59.77
PTCN	96.62	53.57	0.24	95.65	31.89
GH/MSGH	99.30	51.84	0.26	88.55	28.33
NOT	100.02	50.98	0.25	93.21	27.51
NTO	100.14	50.89	0.25	88.26	22.87
Average elapsed time	109.36	51.29	0.25	89.52	41.16