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. 2005 Feb;169(2):1021–1031. doi: 10.1534/genetics.103.019752

TABLE 2.

The average CVs for the parameter estimates of EM-LRT over 1000 simulations

Proportion of missing genotype
Sample
size (n)
Parameters
of interest
10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
  50   pj,k,l 0.767 0.812
  50   μj 0.023 0.025
  50   σ2 0.106 0.110
 100   pj,k,l 0.536 0.571 0.603
 100   μj 0.018 0.019 0.020
 100   σ2 0.071 0.073 0.074
 200   pj,k,l 0.386 0.402 0.423 0.453 0.487 0.541
 200   μj 0.013 0.013 0.014 0.015 0.016 0.019
 200   σ2 0.051 0.051 0.052 0.053 0.053 0.055
 500   pj,k,l 0.241 0.253 0.267 0.285 0.306 0.336 0.387
 500   μj 0.008 0.008 0.009 0.009 0.010 0.011 0.014
 500   σ2 0.032 0.031 0.031 0.032 0.032 0.033 0.033
1000   pj,k,l 0.172 0.180 0.188 0.198 0.216 0.239 0.269
1000   μj 0.006 0.006 0.006 0.007 0.007 0.008 0.009
1000   σ2 0.021 0.023 0.022 0.022 0.023 0.023 0.023

Note that the average CVs for the parameter estimates were calculated only at those proportions of missing data when the EM-LRT remains valid or when the type I error starts to be inflated.