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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 17.
Published in final edited form as: J Off Stat. 2009;25(1):21–36.

Table 4.

1,000 x (Average Empirical Bias) of 1000 replicate samples (n=150)

Generated Model for Y and R Hot deck estimators Weighting estimators Complete
case
Before
deletion
[]Y []R wrhd(x) wshd(x) uhd(x) uhd(xz) wrr(x) urr(x) urr(xz)
1 XZ XZ 22 22 4 4 21 17 −4 66 0
2 XZ X + Z 37 37 21 1 37 27 2 71 2
3 XZ X 2 2 −13 2 −2 −2 −1 57 0
4 XZ Z 30 28 14 1 29 27 −1 21 −1
5 XZ ϕ 0 0 −13 1 0 0 0 0 1
6 X + Z XZ 37 37 10 0 37 33 1 78 2
7 X + Z X + Z 59 59 34 2 59 51 1 87 0
8 X + Z X −3 −3 −27 1 −3 −2 −1 59 −1
9 X + Z Z 39 41 21 1 41 39 2 33 0
10 X + Z ϕ 0 −1 −18 −1 −1 0 0 0 0
11 X XZ 0 1 0 1 0 −6 0 65 −1
12 X X + Z 0 −1 0 −1 0 −16 0 54 −1
13 X X 1 0 −1 1 0 1 0 84 0
14 X Z 1 1 1 −2 −1 −4 −1 −13 1
15 X ϕ −1 0 0 −1 −1 −1 −1 −1 1
16 Z XZ 36 37 11 1 36 38 0 20 0
17 Z X + Z 52 52 29 2 52 58 −3 33 −2
18 Z X −2 1 −25 1 −2 −1 0 −17 0
19 Z Z 43 41 20 2 41 42 −2 44 0
20 Z ϕ 3 −4 −23 −3 −4 −3 −3 −3 −2
21 ϕ XZ −2 −1 1 0 −1 −1 0 −1 −1
22 ϕ X + Z 2 −3 −2 −3 −3 −3 −3 −2 −1
23 ϕ X 0 −1 −2 −2 −2 −2 −1 −1 −1
24 ϕ Z 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1
25 ϕ ϕ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 2
Mean 14 14 2 −1 14 12 0 30 0
Mean absolute average empirical bias 15 15 12 2 15 15 1 33 1

Smallest absolute empirical average bias among hot deck methods shown in italics.