Table 7.

Simulation results. Data generated under three-class model with three manifest variables. Zero mean for latent variable in largest class

Class 1
Parameter	True Value	Mean (SD)	Average Bias	Coverage
Pr(Ci = k)	0.50	0.52 (0.07)	0.019	91
α1	7.0	6.99 (0.15)	−0.006	96
α2	7.0	7.05 (0.15)	0.05	94
α3	2.0	2.03 (0.10)	0.03	92
λ1	1.2	1.20 (0.05)	0.001	98
λ2	1.2	1.18 (0.07)	−0.015	95
λ3	0.4	0.40 (0.03)	0.003	95
γ1	0	−0.0034 (0.01)	−0.0034	95
γ2	0	0.00009 (0.0004)	0.00009	94
Class 2
Parameter	True Value	Mean (SD)	Average Bias	Coverage
Pr(Ci = k)	0.33	0.33 (0.035)	−0.007	94
α1	6.0	6.01 (0.18)	0.008	92
α2	6.0	5.99 (0.15)	−0.014	98
α3	1.5	1.49 (0.14)	−0.008	96
λ1	1.0	1.01 (0.05)	0.01	93
λ2	1.0	1.01 (0.05)	0.01	93
λ3	0.8	0.81 (0.04)	0.0056	94
γ1	−0.25	−0.24 (0.020)	0.0052	95
γ2	0.0034	0.0033 (0.0005)	−0.0001	95
Class 3
Parameter	True Value	Mean (SD)	Average Bias	Coverage
Pr(Ci = k)	0.17	0.15 (0.066)	0.015	89
α1	6.5	6.42 (0.35)	−0.085	96
α2	8.0	7.89 (0.34)	−0.11	93
α3	3.0	2.89 (0.28)	−0.11	98
λ1	1.10	1.15 (0.14)	0.05	95
λ2	0.50	0.60 (0.18)	0.10	92
λ3	0.50	0.54 (0.12)	0.04	91
γ1	−0.10	−0.09 (0.028)	0.0096	98
γ2	0.0032	0.0028 (0.0009)	−0.00038	96
Variance Parameters
Parameter	True Value	Mean (SD)	Average Bias	Coverage
Ψa	0.40	0.40 (0.10)	0.002	91
${\tau }_1^2$	0.50	0.53 (0.11)	0.029	96
${\tau }_2^2$	0.60	0.62 (0.097)	0.021	96
${\tau }_3^2$	0.30	0.32 (0.043)	0.02	97
${\sigma }_1^2$	0.40	0.40 (0.039)	0.0049	96
${\sigma }_2^2$	0.40	0.40 (0.040)	0.0049	93
${\sigma }_3^2$	0.30	0.30 (0.018)	−0.0002	95