Table 2.

Results of simulation situation 2.

Sample-size (N)	Proposed method		SAM
	Bias	Variance	Bias	Variance
5	−0.0308	0.0361	0.0005	0.0340
10	−0.0122	0.0257	0.0013	0.0259
20	−0.0045	0.0214	0.0027	0.0247
40	−0.0034	0.0198	0.0042	0.0260
80	−0.0032	0.0205	0.0085	0.0258