Table 3.

Horizontal and (expressed as percent) vertical bias and absolute error, and percentage of runs where MTD estimate misses target by ≥ 0.5, for frequentist MTD estimation.

	Average bias		Average absolute error
Condition	Horizontal	Vertical	Horizontal	Vertical	% of runs where |h* − h| ≥ 0.5
All runs	0.07	2.1	0.42	7.4	26.7
h = 2	0.00	0.6	0.33	5.6	20.0
h = 3.5	0.07	1.8	0.40	6.9	24.9
h = 5	0.14	3.8	0.53	9.8	35.1
b = 0.7	0.12	2.6	0.56	7.6	39.2
b = 1.4	0.02	1.6	0.28	7.3	14.1
v = 0.5	0.03	0.8	0.30	5.2	17.3
v = 0.95	0.12	3.3	0.54	9.6	36.1
M = 0.2	0.05	2.0	0.45	7.0	30.0
M = 1/3	0.09	2.2	0.39	7.9	23.3
n = 25	0.09	3.0	0.53	9.3	33.0
n = 50	0.06	1.6	0.37	6.5	20.3
Q = 0.2	−0.02	0.4	0.33	5.7	21.7
Q = 0.6	0.16	3.8	0.51	9.2	31.6
L = 1	0.07	2.1	0.42	7.4	26.2
L = 3	0.07	2.1	0.42	7.5	27.1