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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2011 Jan 31;67(3):1083–1091. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01543.x

Table 2.

Simulation Results when Predictor and Outcome are Sometimes Incorrect

p nv ρu,u* = −0.5 ρu,u* = 0 ρu,u* = 0.5
%-Biasa SE¯b (×100) Coverage MSE (×107) %-Bias SE¯ (×100) Coverage MSE (×107) %-Bias SE¯ (×100) Coverage MSE (×107)
0.05 0 −2.29 0.042 0.907 2.4 −4.69 0.043 0.785 4.3 −7.08 0.043 0.619 7.2
25 −2.62 0.073 0.877 19.6 −0.90 0.086 0.849 20.0 0.76 0.103 0.797 28.7
50 −2.62 0.061 0.872 7.4 −1.36 0.071 0.869 9.0 0.11 0.084 0.867 11.9
100 −1.55 0.053 0.916 3.6 −0.81 0.061 0.918 4.8 −0.08 0.070 0.914 6.0
300 −0.42 0.046 0.948 2.2 −0.20 0.049 0.946 2.6 −0.01 0.053 0.952 2.8
1000 −0.01 0.032 0.946 1.0 0.03 0.032 0.947 1.0 0.02 0.032 0.953 1.0
0.1 0 −4.54 0.042 0.796 3.9 −9.05 0.043 0.439 10.3 −13.62 0.044 0.147 21.0
25 −5.51 0.097 0.793 28.4 −1.57 0.124 0.758 34.0 1.63 0.151 0.727 55.4
50 −3.06 0.075 0.856 10.0 −1.26 0.095 0.853 13.6 0.19 0.115 0.840 19.9
100 −1.42 0.062 0.917 4.6 −0.62 0.075 0.914 6.9 −0.09 0.089 0.907 9.5
300 −0.49 0.050 0.948 2.6 −0.16 0.055 0.943 3.3 −0.12 0.061 0.948 3.8
1000 −0.06 0.032 0.954 1.0 0.02 0.032 0.951 1.0 0.04 0.032 0.949 1.0
0.2 0 −8.23 0.041 0.473 8.5 −16.73 0.043 0.035 30.1 −24.92 0.044 0 64.6
25 −5.54 0.132 0.787 37.7 −1.78 0.172 0.764 51.2 3.00 0.217 0.795 84.4
50 −2.42 0.098 0.883 13.0 −0.98 0.128 0.868 20.9 0.84 0.158 0.866 32.1
100 −1.05 0.076 0.933 6.5 −0.66 0.096 0.924 9.9 0.57 0.117 0.924 15.2
300 −0.29 0.056 0.951 3.2 −0.23 0.064 0.946 4.2 0.17 0.073 0.944 5.6
1000 0.08 0.032 0.954 1.0 −0.09 0.032 0.949 1.0 0.02 0.032 0.951 1.0
0.3 0 −11.60 0.040 0.179 15.2 −23.06 0.042 0 55.3 −34.60 0.044 0 122
25 −4.90 0.162 0.817 46.5 −0.80 0.210 0.804 71.4 4.54 0.266 0.834 115
50 −2.39 0.117 0.893 17.5 −0.47 0.151 0.886 28.3 2.49 0.191 0.893 45.8
100 −1.29 0.088 0.925 9.0 −0.19 0.111 0.927 13.7 1.33 0.137 0.925 20.9
300 −0.58 0.061 0.947 3.8 −0.11 0.071 0.952 5.2 0.33 0.082 0.946 6.8
1000 −0.08 0.032 0.950 1.0 −0.01 0.032 0.946 1.0 −0.04 0.032 0.955 1.0
a

Percentbias=(β^ββ)×100%.

b

SE¯=meanstandarderrorofestimates.