Table 1.

Empirical coverage probabilities (median lengths) of the 95% confidence intervals for different quantiles of cost for group 2

			Light censoring		Heavy censoring
Quantile	Sample size	Method	Uniform survival	Exponential survival	Uniform survival	Exponential survival
25%	100	KM	0.923 (4065)	0.795 (3901)	0.868 (4404)	0.568 (4306)
		CP	0.937 (4201)	0.948 (4025)	0.932 (4772)	0.952 (4660)
		AL	0.188 (3807)	0.495 (3407)	0.020 (3725)	0.149 (3319)
		SW	0.950 (4226)	0.936 (4052)	0.935 (4889)	0.951 (4952)
		EF	0.946 (4172)	0.939 (3887)	0.944 (4693)	0.962 (4339)
	300	KM	0.817 (2367)	0.429 (2259)	0.448 (2515)	0.088 (2550)
		CP	0.944 (2414)	0.944 (2328)	0.945 (2690)	0.932 (2674)
		AL	0.006 (2174)	0.080 (1924)	0.000 (2066)	0.001 (1886)
		SW	0.950 (2459)	0.960 (2348)	0.950 (2806)	0.958 (2786)
		EF	0.946 (2395)	0.964 (2201)	0.943 (2650)	0.958 (2443)
50%	100	KM	0.905 (4628)	0.729 (4601)	0.775 (5046)	0.490 (5090)
		CP	0.944 (4571)	0.939 (4540)	0.947 (5121)	0.940 (5180)
		AL	0.373 (4047)	0.572 (3716)	0.140 (3994)	0.271 (3660)
		SW	0.965 (4724)	0.941 (4583)	0.942 (5375)	0.952 (5325)
		EF	0.957 (4588)	0.940 (4361)	0.948 (5006)	0.958 (4750)
	300	KM	0.820 (2633)	0.372 (2607)	0.381 (2897)	0.058 (2989)
		CP	0.921 (2653)	0.949 (2642)	0.946 (2943)	0.931 (2966)
		AL	0.022 (2353)	0.148 (2176)	0.000 (2286)	0.007 (2142)
		SW	0.944 (2733)	0.957 (2651)	0.944 (3105)	0.947 (3116)
		EF	0.948 (2638)	0.957 (2500)	0.945 (2943)	0.952 (2740)
75%	100	KM	0.883 (6685)	0.755(6659)	0.803 (7594)	0.591 (7969)
		CP	0.956 (6286)	0.936 (6279)	0.949 (7044)	0.930 (7501)
		AL	0.756 (5500)	0.810 (5280)	0.467 (5503)	0.623 (5286)
		SW	0.944 (6434)	0.964 (6309)	0.952 (7312)	0.953 (7245)
		EF	0.942 (6320)	0.961 (5984)	0.948 (7027)	0.962 (6597)
	300	KM	0.795 (3638)	0.466 (3728)	0.663 (4113)	0.131 (4361)
		CP	0.950 (3594)	0.936 (3592)	0.931 (3930)	0.916 (3983)
		AL	0.285 (3062)	0.457 (2933)	0.027 (3061)	0.121 (2898)
		SW	0.949 (3626)	0.951 (3490)	0.943 (4185)	0.951 (4150)
		EF	0.953 (3567)	0.947 (3360)	0.940 (4035)	0.960 (3797)