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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Nonparametr Stat. 2012 Apr 30;24(2):359–377. doi: 10.1080/10485252.2011.638071

Table 2.

Coverage frequencies from 500 replications using cubic spline (14) with p = 4 and Nm = [cn1/(2p)log(n)].

n 1 − α Coverage frequency
σ = 0.5
Coverage frequency
σ = 0.3

c = 0.2 c = 0.3 c = 0.5 c = 1 c = 2 c = 0.2 c = 0.3 c = 0.5 c = 1 c = 2
60 0.950 0.644 0.916 0.902 0.890 0.738 0.672 0.922 0.940 0.940 0.916
0.990 0.866 0.980 0.958 0.964 0.888 0.884 0.986 0.986 0.984 0.982

100 0.950 0.596 0.902 0.904 0.876 0.846 0.610 0.916 0.914 0.914 0.896
0.990 0.786 0.970 0.968 0.956 0.952 0.798 0.980 0.974 0.970 0.964

200 0.950 0.928 0.942 0.932 0.936 0.904 0.938 0.952 0.950 0.948 0.934
0.990 0.978 0.992 0.982 0.992 0.978 0.982 0.984 0.992 0.982 0.984

300 0.950 0.920 0.948 0.926 0.948 0.898 0.922 0.956 0.948 0.942 0.938
0.990 0.976 0.986 0.986 0.988 0.980 0.982 0.984 0.988 0.984 0.982

500 0.950 0.928 0.922 0.954 0.902 0.898 0.928 0.928 0.936 0.932 0.916
0.990 0.980 0.982 0.990 0.976 0.978 0.980 0.982 0.990 0.990 0.992