Fig. 5.

Performance of the transitive triplet effect parameter one step estimators: this figure plots parameter estimates in the left column. For these figures, the fine, black density plot (the tallest among the plots) represents the restricted estimate. To either side of this restricted parameter density plot are the period-wise estimates for the unrestricted model. The dotted density plot represents the one step estimates, and the bold density plots represent the method of moments estimators. The true period-wise values are given by vertical reference lines. On the right, estimates of the parameter estimate variances are shown. The black plots represent the variance estimators from the restricted estimation and the gray plot represents the variance of the unrestricted estimates. Vertical lines represent the sample variances