Table 3.

Estimated variance components in the simulation study. Re. bias denotes relative bias.

	Full data (m = 40)		Full data (m = 60)
Parameter	Estimate (SD)	Re. bias	Estimate (SD)	Re. bias
DPL
v1(intercept)	0.36 (0.22)	0.00	0.33 (0.17)	−0.08
ρ	0.38 (0.23)	−0.05	0.40 (0.20)	0.00
${\sigma }_u^2$	0.58 (0.19)	0.16	0.56 (0.14)	0.12
${\sigma }_{\epsilon }^2$	0.21 (0.11)	−0.16	0.22 (0.09)	−0.12
DPL-MIS
v1(slope)	0.08 (0.18)	-	0.06 (0.11)	-
ρ	0.72 (0.09)	0.80	0.72 (0.08)	0.80
${\sigma }_u^2$	0.85 (0.17)	0.70	0.84 (0.15)	0.68
${\sigma }_{\epsilon }^2$	0.38 (0.09)	0.52	0.38 (0.08)	0.52