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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 12.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2009 May 15;28(11):1620–1635. doi: 10.1002/sim.3563

Table DI.

Bias and MSE for estimated parameters with equal sample sizes.

Method Bias
MSE
β0 β1 β2 β0 β1 β2
Total sample size N = 1000 × 3 × 5 (equal sample size) = 15000
Weighted mean (Mean) 0.0023 0.0005 −0.0005 0.2126 0.0026 0.0068
Median −0.0055 −0.0016 0.0007 0.3792 0.0099 0.0183
Minimum 0.0219 0.0075 −0.0036 0.5250 0.0140 0.0266
Maximum −0.0428 −0.0084 0.0083 0.8344 0.0214 0.0399
Total sample size N = 100 × 3 × 5 (equal sample size) = 1500
Weighted mean (Mean) 0.1066 0.0107 −0.0272 2.8586 0.0708 0.1509
Median 0.1781 0.0286 −0.0433 4.2857 0.1156 0.2228
Minimum −0.2240 −0.0181 0.0502 5.4686 0.1158 0.2820
Maximum −0.1285 −0.0037 −0.0373 11.4781 0.3338 0.5221