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Published in final edited form as: J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat. 2012 Oct 22;62(2):233–250. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2012.01057.x

Table 5.

Simulation results with intercepts β_0j = logit(j/J), J = 5; (β₁, β₂, β₃) = (−1, −1, −.06); and average (p_i1, p_i2, p_i3, p_i4, p_i5) = (.25, .17, .16, .17, .25).

Parameter	Sample Size	Method	Percent Relative Bias	Root MSE	Coverage Probability
β₁ = −1	40	ML	10.6	0.727	94.0%
		ML:Bias-Corrected	1.5	0.636	96.0%
		Clogg et al.	6.6	0.667	94.9%
	80	ML	7.0	0.446	95.1%
		ML:Bias-Corrected	−1.4	0.434	95.4%
		Clogg et al.	4.1	0.449	94.1%
β₂ = −1	40	ML	11.2	0.393	94.6%
		ML:Bias-Corrected	0.4	0.392	96.3%
		Clogg et al.	7.0	0.392	96.0%
	80	ML	5.6	0.256	94.7%
		ML:Bias-Corrected	0.2	0.246	95.4%
		Clogg et al.	4.9	0.298	94.5%
β₃ = −0.06	40	ML	13.2	0.045	94.2%
		ML:Bias-Corrected	1.6	0.043	96.1%
		Clogg et al.	7.5	0.049	94.3%
	80	ML	6.9	0.027	94.0%
		ML:Bias-Corrected	−0.8	0.024	95.8%
		Clogg et al.	3.4	0.028	95.1%

All simulation replications converged for ML.