. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 20.

Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2010 Oct 20;29(29):3004–3016. doi: 10.1002/sim.4079

Table I.

Simulated data structure for models A and B.

	Model A	Model B
Model covariates	V₁~N(10, 2)	V₁~N(μ_h, 3)^*
Model covariates	V₂~Bin(0.6)	V₂~Bin(0.6)
	V₃~N(13 + 0.5V₁, 4)	V₃~N(25, 6)
	V₄~Bin(0.5)	V₄~Bin(0.5)
Extraneous covariates	V₅~N(20, 5)	V₅~N(20, 5)
Extraneous covariates	V₆~Bin(0.7)	V₆~Bin(0.7)
	V₇~Bin(0.5)	V₇~Bin(0.5)
	V₈~Bin(0.4)	V₈~Bin(0.4)
Missingness indicators for covariate V₁	M₁~Bin(0.2I(V₃<18))	M₁~Bin(0.2I(V₃<25))
Missingness indicators for covariate V₁	M₂~Bin(0.5I(V₃<18))	M₂~Bin(0.5I(V₃<25))
	M₃~Bin(0.8I(V₃<18))	M₃~Bin(0.8I(V₃<25))
Event time p.d.f.	Exp(λ_h)^†	Exp(λ_h)^†
Censoring time p.d.f.	f(c)=0.1, if c=1/4, 1/2, 1, 2; =0.2, if c=4, 8, 16	f(c)=0.1, if c=1/4, 1/2, 1, 2; =0.2, if c=4, 8, 16

See tree (a) in Figure 2 for values of μ_h in covariate V₁.

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See tree (b) in Figure 2 for values of λ_h in models A and B.