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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2010 Jul 21;67(2):495–503. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01463.x

Table 1.

Simulation results of linear mixed effects models comparing SCAD, LASSO, and ALASSO penalty functions with random effect and ICQ penalty estimates

β Estimate (D Estimate)

Model Method MRME ZERO1 ZERO2
n = 50, σ = 3 SCAD-RE 0.576 (0.980) 0.11 (0.94) 0.00 (0.00)
SCAD-ICQ 0.552 (0.259) 0.01 (0.09) 0.00 (0.01)
LASSO-RE 0.983 (0.988) 0.99 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-ICQ 0.605 (0.241) 0.04 (0.10) 0.00 (0.01)
ALASSO-RE 0.949 (0.983) 0.80 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-ICQ 0.597 (0.263) 0.01 (0.13) 0.00 (0.01)
True 0.559 (0.228) 0.00 (0.00) 0.00 (0.00)
n = 50, σ = 1 SCAD-RE 0.906 (0.803) 0.58 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
SCAD-ICQ 0.869 (0.461) 0.03 (0.13) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-RE 0.997 (0.996) 0.99 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-ICQ 0.884 (0.438) 0.04 (0.08) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-RE 0.983 (0.989) 0.81 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-ICQ 0.858 (0.441) 0.03 (0.10) 0.00 (0.00)
True 0.846 (0.439) 0.00 (0.00) 0.00 (0.00)
n = 100, σ = 3 SCAD-RE 0.571 (0.970) 0.13 (0.93) 0.00 (0.00)
SCAD-ICQ 0.565 (0.219) 0.01 (0.04) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-RE 0.993 (0.994) 0.99 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-ICQ 0.584 (0.232) 0.01 (0.04) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-RE 0.949 (0.987) 0.81 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-ICQ 0.574 (0.205) 0.01 (0.04) 0.00 (0.00)
True 0.513 (0.196) 0.00 (0.00) 0.00 (0.00)
n = 100, σ = 1 SCAD-RE 0.895 (0.803) 0.57 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
SCAD-ICQ 0.820 (0.452) 0.01 (0.07) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-RE 0.999 (0.997) 0.99 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-ICQ 0.835 (0.478) 0.03 (0.08) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-RE 0.982 (0.989) 0.82 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-ICQ 0.839 (0.415) 0.02 (0.06) 0.00 (0.00)
True 0.832 (0.392) 0.00 (0.00) 0.00 (0.00)
n = 200, σ = 3 SCAD-RE 0.553 (0.987) 0.13 (0.94) 0.00 (0.00)
SCAD-ICQ 0.554 (0.245) 0.01 (0.07) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-RE 0.995 (0.996) 0.99 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-ICQ 0.617 (0.244) 0.05 (0.09) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-RE 0.934 (0.992) 0.78 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-ICQ 0.603 (0.237) 0.02 (0.11) 0.00 (0.00)
True 0.546 (0.218) 0.00 (0.00) 0.00 (0.00)
n = 200, σ = 1 SCAD-RE 0.902 (0.833) 0.55 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
SCAD-ICQ 0.853 (0.487) 0.01 (0.12) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-RE 0.998 (0.998) 0.99 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
LASSO-ICQ 0.873 (0.554) 0.07 (0.20) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-RE 0.982 (0.991) 0.79 (1.00) 0.00 (0.00)
ALASSO-ICQ 0.871 (0.468) 0.02 (0.11) 0.00 (0.00)
True 0.839 (0.408) 0.00 (0.00) 0.00 (0.00)