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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2013 Aug 2;32(29):10.1002/sim.5906. doi: 10.1002/sim.5906

Table 3.

Bias, standard error (SE), standard deviation (SD), and coverage probabilities (CP) of 95% credible intervals, for the separate model and the joint model, when there is sizeable inter-process correlation.

Parameter Separate Model Joint Model

Bias SE SD CP RMSE Bias SE SD CP RMSE
β10 = 0.186 −0.002 0.010 0.009 0.948 0.010 −0.001 0.010 0.010 0.958 0.010
β11 = −1.217 0.030 0.024 0.025 0.766 0.039 −0.006 0.025 0.026 0.926 0.027
β20 = −1.031 −0.002 0.026 0.024 0.950 0.024 −0.006 0.031 0.033 0.922 0.034
β21 = 1.217 0.028 0.024 0.022 0.848 0.036 −0.004 0.026 0.027 0.926 0.027
β30 = 0.405 −0.007 0.026 0.026 0.948 0.027 −0.004 0.025 0.026 0.934 0.027
β31 = −2.603 0.032 0.063 0.063 0.886 0.070 0.002 0.064 0.066 0.938 0.066
β40 = −2.000 −0.001 0.011 0.012 0.930 0.012 0.000 0.012 0.012 0.922 0.012
β41 = 1.000 0.006 0.016 0.016 0.910 0.017 0.000 0.017 0.017 0.952 0.017
σ11 = 0.090 −0.002 0.009 0.010 0.924 0.010 −0.003 0.010 0.011 0.922 0.011
σ21 = −0.010 −0.003 0.011 0.011 0.908 0.012 0.002 0.020 0.022 0.932 0.023
σ22 = 0.160 0.005 0.023 0.024 0.950 0.024 −0.009 0.040 0.044 0.942 0.044
σ31 = −0.120 0.002 0.015 0.016 0.904 0.016 0.003 0.017 0.019 0.924 0.019
σ32 = 0.050 −0.003 0.032 0.035 0.920 0.035 −0.007 0.044 0.045 0.924 0.046
σ33 = 0.250 0.010 0.060 0.059 0.960 0.059 −0.013 0.061 0.063 0.944 0.064
σ44 = 0.360 0.001 0.014 0.015 0.910 0.015 0.002 0.014 0.015 0.916 0.015
σ41 = −0.050 0.001 0.008 0.010 0.930 0.010
σ42 = −0.040 0.006 0.016 0.019 0.918 0.020
σ43 = 0.050 0.003 0.017 0.019 0.944 0.019

Note: Large bias and poor CP are highlighted in boldface.