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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J R Stat Soc Series B Stat Methodol. 2010 Jan;72(1):49–69. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2009.00725.x

Table 1.

Comparisons of ARE m̂, m̂LS

Error Distribution ARE (m̂, m̂LS)
q = 1 q = 5 q = 9 q = 19 q = 99
N(0, 1) 0.6968 0.9339 0.9659 0.9858 0.9980
Laplace 1.7411 1.2199 1.1548 1.0960 1.0296
t-distribution with df = 3 1.4718 1.5967 1.5241 1.4181 1.2323
t-distribution with df = 4 1.0988 1.2652 1.2377 1.1872 1.0929
.95N(0, 1) + .05N(0, 32) 0.8639 1.1300 1.1536 1.1540 1.0804
.90N(0, 1) + .10N(0, 32) 0.9986 1.2712 1.2768 1.2393 1.0506
.95N(0, 1) + .05N(0, 102) 2.6960 3.4577 3.4783 3.3591 1.3498
.90N(0, 1) + .10N(0, 102) 4.0505 4.9128 4.7049 3.5444 1.1379