Table 4.

Bayesian estimates of the person-invariant parameters with bimodal baseline autoregressive parameter distributions (condition 2) in the simulation study

Parameters	Est SD	SD	Bias	RMSE	Coverage (%)
[λ21, λ31, λ41]	[0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.002, 0.001, 0.002]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02]	[90, 84, 89]
[λ62, λ72, λ82]	[0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.02, 0.01, 0.01]	[0.000, 0.000, 0.001]	[0.02, 0.01, 0.01]	[87, 91, 93]
ψε1	0.02	0.03	−0.001	0.02	83
ψε2	0.02	0.02	0.003	0.02	88
ψε3	0.02	0.02	−0.000	0.02	90
ψε4	0.02	0.02	0.004	0.02	88
ψε5	0.02	0.02	−0.000	0.03	87
ψε6	0.02	0.02	0.000	0.02	88
ψε7	0.02	0.02	−0.001	0.02	90
ψε8	0.02	0.02	0.001	0.02	87
μ1	0.03	0.03	0.008	0.03	85
μ2	0.03	0.03	−0.001	0.03	86
μ3	0.03	0.03	0.005	0.03	89
μ4	0.03	0.03	0.002	0.03	83
μ5	0.02	0.02	0.005	0.02	91
μ6	0.02	0.02	0.005	0.02	92
μ7	0.02	0.02	0.003	0.02	91
μ8	0.02	0.02	0.002	0.02	92
[τ12, τ13, τ14, τ15]	[0.03, 0.03, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03]	[0.007, 0.004, 0.006, 0.004]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03]	[87, 89, 80, 85]
[τ22, τ23, τ24, τ25]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.03, 0.02]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03]	[−0.006, −0.004, −0.007, −0.004]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03]	[85, 89, 84, 83]
[τ32, τ33, τ34, τ35]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03]	[0.006, 0.002, −0.002, −0.001]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.03, 0.03]	[88, 82, 85, 84]
[τ42, τ43, τ44, τ45]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.02, 0.03]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.02, 0.02]	[−0.003, −0.000, −0.003, −0.001]	[0.04, 0.03, 0.02, 0.02]	[84, 87, 88, 93]
[τ52, τ53, τ54, τ55]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.01, 0.01, 0.02, 0.01]	[−0.001, 0.001, −0.001, −0.001]	[0.01, 0.01, 0.02, 0.02]	[89, 91, 90, 92]
[τ62, τ63, τ64, τ65]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.003, 0.002, −0.001, 0.001]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[91, 87, 89, 89]
[τ72, τ73, τ74, τ75]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.01, 0.01, 0.02, 0.02]	[−0.003, −0.003, −0.004, −0.002]	[0.01, 0.01, 0.02, 0.02]	[87, 93, 92, 92]
[τ82, τ83, τ84, τ85]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[−0.002, −0.003, −0.002, −0.002]	[0.01, 0.02, 0.02, 0.02]	[92, 88, 88, 88]
ϕ11	0.03	0.03	−0.001	0.04	89
ϕ12	0.02	0.01	0.006	0.02	93
ϕ22	0.03	0.03	−0.002	0.03	94