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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2011 Mar 1;67(3):810–818. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01565.x

Table 5.

Simulation Results: Comparison of MSE and performance of DICO in MVN and OMVN models. The columns correspond to the models fit and the rows to the scenario under which the data was generated.

Parameter MVN
OMVN
MAR MNAR MAR MNAR
MVN, Sample Size 50
 MAR E(Y2) 2.25 11.6 3.32 10.9
E(Y3) 7.40 23.3 7.94 24.1

 MNAR E(Y2) 8.72 3.47 11.5 4.45
E(Y3) 19.0 9.82 18.7 10.1

DICO (rate in favor) 610.3(78.0%) 613.6(22.0%)

MVN, Sample Size 150
 MAR E(Y2) 0.77 8.82 1.09 7.79
E(Y3) 2.26 16.9 2.53 16.6

 MNAR E(Y2) 7.75 1.22 9.43 1.55
E(Y3) 12.8 2.98 13.7 3.27

DICO (rate in favor) 1780.3( 73.3%) 1783.9 (26.7%)

MVN, Sample Size 500
 MAR E(Y2) 0.26 7.70 0.45 6.43
E(Y3) 0.93 14.9 0.91 14.2

 MNAR E(Y2) 7.55 0.41 9.19 0.59
E(Y3) 11.2 1.09 12.0 1.12

DICO (rate in favor) 5874.7( 75.2%) 5880.7 (24.8%)

OMVN, Sample Size 50
 MAR E(Y2) 3.65 4.37 2.85 9.06
E(Y3) 11.9 22.9 11.7 27.9

 MNAR E(Y2) 18.3 4.50 12.1 3.80
E(Y3) 27.8 13.1 23.0 13.4

DICO (rate in favor) 676.9( 0.9%) 649.4 (99.1%)

OMVN, Sample Size 150
 MAR E(Y2) 2.45 2.61 0.96 7.53
E(Y3) 3.35 11.5 3.45 17.7

 MNAR E(Y2) 17.3 2.74 9.32 1.31
E(Y3) 21.5 3.91 15.0 3.99

DICO (rate in favor) 1970.5( 0.0%) 1883.5 (100.0%)

OMVN, Sample Size 500
 MAR E(Y2) 2.10 2.00 0.35 6.56
E(Y3) 1.13 10.3 1.14 16.3

 MNAR E(Y2) 16.8 2.22 8.81 0.50
E(Y3) 17.5 1.43 11.3 1.26

DICO (rate in favor) 6515.6( 0.0%) 6213.1 (100.0%)

Bold indicates the MSE results for the true model. Rate in favor corresponds to the percentage of simulated datasets where the model (either MVN or OMVN) had a smaller DICO.