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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 6.

Simulation Results: Assessing fit of MVN and OMVN models using DICO under heavy-tailed and skewed data generating mechanisms. Values in the table are DICO(rate in favor). Rate in favor corresponds to the percentage of simulated datasets where the model (either MVN or OMVN) had a smaller DICO.

Sample Size MVN OMVN
MVT, MAR
50 781.8(49.2%) 780.1 (50.8%)
150 2344.8(26.0%) 2338.4 (74.0%)
500 7864.4(5.0%) 7844.4 (95.0%)

MVT, MNAR
50 790.8(54.0%) 790.1 (46.0%)
150 2381.6(38.8%) 2377.7 (61.3%)
500 7951.4(12.5%) 7938.9 (87.5%)

MSKN, MAR
50 623.1(72.9%) 625.2 (27.1%)
150 1845.2(61.3%) 1846.0 (38.7%)
500 6119.6(26.5%) 6115.3 (73.5%)

MSKN, MNAR
50 632.5(75.4%) 635.0 (24.6%)
150 1872.4(63.7 %) 1873.9 (36.3%)
500 6211.9(41.2 %) 6210.2 (58.8% )