Table IV.

Bias, coverage rate of the 95 per cent interval, standard deviation (SD), for the separate analysis, the joint analysis ignoring-dependent censoring and the joint analysis incorporating-dependent censoring.

		Separate analysis			Joint analysis ignoring dependent censoring			Joint analysis incorporating dependent censoring
n	Parameter	Bias	Coverage	SD	Bias	Coverage	SD	Bias	Coverage	SD
200	β 0	0.003	0.935	0.043	<0.001	0.9450	0.043	0.002	0.945	0.044
	β1 = −1.5	0.025	0.945	0.052	0.017	0.965	0.052	0.002	0.980	0.051
	β2 = 1	−0.203	0.210	0.070	−0.100	0.780	0.077	−0.009	0.955	0.087
	σ2 = 0.25	0.001	0.960	0.013	0.001	0.960	0.013	0.001	0.945	0.014
	${\sigma }_u^2=0.5$	−0.049	0.935	0.071	−0.011	0.955	0.0140	0.014	0.960	0.084
	σuv=0.4				0.023	0.925	0.169	0.002	0.950	0.142
	${\sigma }_v^2=0.5$	−0.034	0.845	0.690	0.236	0.875	0.400	0.034	0.975	0.314
	${\gamma }_1^{\left(1\right)}=-1$	0.073	0.950	0.256	0.034	0.955	0.257	0.007	0.960	0.245
	${\gamma }_2^{\left(1\right)}=0.8$	0.027	0.950	0.442	0.061	0.955	0.413	0.070	0.925	0.422
	${\gamma }_1^{\left(2\right)}=-1.5$	−0.092	0.930	0.338	—	—	—	−0.018	0.950	0.278
	${\gamma }_2^{\left(2\right)}=0.5$	−0.015	0.935	0.507	—	—	—	0.022	0.935	0.425
	ν(2) = 1.2	0.145	0.935	4.918	—	—	—	0.051	0.980	0.435
500	β0 = 10	0.005	0.950	0.025	0.002	0.975	0.025	0.003	0.960	0.026
	β1 = −1.5	0.019	0.9500	0.033	0.011	0.950	0.033	−0.003	0.970	0.033
	β2 = 1	−0.203	0.005	0.044	−0.093	0.560	0.053	0.008	0.950	0.057
	σ2 = 0.25	<0.001	0.970	0.008	<0.001	0.970	0.008	<0.001	0.960	0.009
	${\sigma }_u^2=0.5$	−0.050	0.810	0.048	−0.013	0.920	0.055	0.013	0.935	0.057
	σuv=0.4				0.022	0.915	0.107	0.019	0.965	0.090
	${\sigma }_v^2=0.5$	−0.029	0.935	0.220	0.200	0.810	0.275	0.024	0.945	0.164
	${\gamma }_1^{\left(1\right)}=-1$	0.012	0.920	0.163	0.033	0.925	0.164	0.011	0.940	0.156
	${\gamma }_2^{\left(1\right)}=0.8$	0.001	0.950	0.250	0.043	0.950	0.250	0.014	0.965	0.233
	${\gamma }_1^{\left(2\right)}=-1.5$	−0.011	0.955	0.173	—	—	—	<0.001	0.930	0.162
	${\gamma }_2^{\left(2\right)}=0.5$	0.034	0.935	0.284	—	—	—	0.037	0.945	0.259
	ν(2) = 1.2	0.108	0.940	1.106	—	—	—	−0.008	0.955	0.227

Entries in boldface indicate different results from the three analysis methods.