Table 5.

Summary statistics for coefficients from simulation study with partial correlation of .8 and sample size of 500.

	(ρxy, ρxz, ρyz) = (.9,.83,.7), ρxy.z = .8, τxy.z = 1.1,n = 500
	Pearson correlation				Fisher-z
	Full	CC	EM	MI	Full	CC	EM	MI
20% missing
E(Bias)	0	−0.013	−0.002	−0.002	0.002	−0.032	−0.004	−0.004
E(SE)	0.027	0.031	0.032	0.029	0.045	0.050	0.089	0.046
$\sqrt{\mathit{MSE}}$	0.017	0.023	0.019	0.019	0.047	0.061	0.052	0.052
RE	1	1.94	1.27	1.28	1	1.70	1.23	1.25
95% Cov	0.997	0.991	0.998	0.998	0.941	0.89	0.999	0.915
35% missing
E(Bias)	0	−0.019	−0.004	−0.004	0.002	−0.048	−0.01	−0.008
E(SE)	0.027	0.035	0.034	0.030	0.045	0.056	0.092	0.048
$\sqrt{\mathit{MSE}}$	0.016	0.028	0.02	0.02	0.045	0.072	0.055	0.055
RE	1	3.0	1.54	1.57	1	2.55	1.46	1.50
95% Cov	0.999	0.995	0.999	0.998	0.948	0.858	1	0.911
50% missing
E(Bias)	0	−0.026	−0.01	−0.009	0.002	−0.065	−0.024	−0.021
E(SE)	0.027	0.040	0.036	0.033	0.045	0.064	0.097	0.051
$\sqrt{\mathit{MSE}}$	0.016	0.037	0.025	0.025	0.046	0.092	0.067	0.067
RE	1	4.932	2.36	2.34	1	3.97	2.09	2.09
95% Cov		0.999	0.984 0.997	0.995	0.955	0.821	0.997	0.886

Note: full data (Full), complete case analysis (CC), the expectation-maximization algorithm (EM), multiple imputation (MI), standard error (SE), mean squared error (MSE), relative efficiency (RE), and 95% coverage probabilities (95% Cov)