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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2009 Sep 1;104(487):912. doi: 10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08423

Table 1.

Bias, empirical standard errors (ESE), model based standard errors (ASE), and 95% confidence interval coverage probabilities (CP).

Number
Subjects
Number
Observations
h1(u; θ) h2(u; θ)
Bias ESE ASE 95% CP Bias ESE ASE 95% CP
100 5 0.0228 0.1277 0.1018 92.9 - - - -
100 10 0.0101 0.0782 0.0728 94.6 0.0104 0.0989 0.0724 93.9
100 20 0.0059 0.0779 0.0701 94.2 0.0020 0.0755 0.0695 94.5
250 5 0.0063 0.0587 0.0512 92.6 - - - -
250 10 0.0035 0.0434 0.0428 95.8 0.0028 0.0476 0.0433 93.2
250 20 0.0026 0.0449 0.0422 93.8 0.0006 0.0424 0.0430 95.5
500 5 0.0029 0.0366 0.0345 94.4 - - - -
500 10 0.0030 0.0323 0.0300 92.4 0.0003 0.0300 0.0301 95.5
500 20 −0.0007 0.0314 0.0294 93.3 0.0015 0.0312 0.0300 94.3