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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2013 Jul 3;33(2):10.1002/sim.5890. doi: 10.1002/sim.5890

Table 4.

Impact of Model Misspecification

γ = −1.5 γ = 0
Method Mean Est SD Est Mean SE Mean Est SD Est Mean SE
Misspecified treatment effect:Heterogeneity in γ
γi ~ U (−2.25, −0.75) γi ~ U (−0.75, 0.75)
Two-stage −1.454 0.228 0.226 0.011 0.154 0.155
Seq Strat −1.388 0.321 0.244 0.086 0.209 0.157
MSM −1.199 0.391 0.317 0.052 0.330 0.257

Misspecified SADT Model: Including Age
Two-stage −1.480 0.223 0.211 −0.005 0.148 0.141
Seq Strat −1.432 0.270 0.215 0.051 0.190 0.136
MSM −1.246 0.283 0.246 0.005 0.220 0.190

Random Censoring
Two-stage −1.526 0.291 0.279 −0.029 0.192 0.186
Seq Strat −1.475 0.415 0.318 0.056 0.265 0.193
MSM −1.281 0.449 0.369 0.037 0.334 0.281

Age Dependent Censoring
Two-stage −1.479 0.269 0.259 0.001 0.175 0.169
Seq Strat −1.446 0.354 0.277 0.056 0.228 0.169
MSM −1.283 0.311 0.291 −0.004 0.221 0.214