Table 2.

(A)Absolute bias for the proposed method and the ratio bias (naive/proposed) and (B) mean square error (MSE) of the naive and the proposed bias-corrected estimates corresponding to Table 1. See Table 1 caption for details.

(A) Bias	β 1		β 2		β 3
Pattern	Proposed	Ratio	Proposed	Ratio	Proposed	Ratio
(a)	0.008	8.125	0.006	11.167	0.019	4.105
(b)	0.003	12.333	0.016	3.562	0.020	4.300
(c)	0.008	5.000	0.004	15.500	0.008	12.000
(d)	0.019	4.526	0.031	0.581	0.005	24.200
(e)	0.008	2.125	0.010	1.700	0.010	7.700
(f)	0.003	29.667	0.007	1.143	0.004	21.000

(B) MSE
Pattern	Naive	Proposed	Naive	Proposed	Naive	Proposed
(a)	0.012	0.017	0.017	0.023	0.021	0.030
(b)	0.015	0.032	0.014	0.024	0.018	0.019
(c)	0.013	0.025	0.010	0.014	0.022	0.027
(d)	0.016	0.017	0.012	0.028	0.026	0.017
(e)	0.011	0.026	0.012	0.026	0.021	0.028
(f)	0.017	0.018	0.013	0.031	0.020	0.028