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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 7.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2012 May 24;25(1):205–220. doi: 10.1177/0962280212448721

Table 1.

Comparison between Gaussian Hermite (GH) quadrature and proposed adaptive Gaussian Hermite (AGH)quadrature.

Distribution X ~ N(1, 2) X ~ Exp(1)

method GH AGH GH AGH

No of Nodes E(X) E(X2) E(X) E(X2) E(X) E(X2) E(X) E(X2)
2 0.14 0.30 1.00 3.00 0.51 0.36 0.56 1.12
3 0.32 0.72 1.00 3.00 0.48 0.58 0.95 1.50
5 0.61 1.54 1.00 3.00 0.68 0.99 0.94 1.75
10 0.93 2.67 1.00 3.00 0.93 1.53 1.02 1.93
20 1.00 2.99 1.00 3.00 0.99 1.86 0.97 1.99
30 1.00 3.00 1.00 3.00 1.00 1.95 1.01 2.00
true value 1.00 3.00 1.00 3.00 1.00 2.00 1.00 2.00