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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2013 Apr 16;25(4):1346–1358. doi: 10.1177/0962280213480877

Table 2.

Simulation results from the reduced and joint models when the terminal event is dependent on the longitudinal outcomes.

Parameters Reduced model
Joint model
Bias SE SD CP Bias SE SD CP
For longitudinal outcomes
β10 = 0.4 −0.193 0.065 0.065 0.178 0.027 0.073 0.079 0.906
β11 = −0.5 0.068 0.089 0.089 0.862 −0.011 0.095 0.096 0.944
ρ = 0.4 −0.033 0.037 0.036 0.860 0.006 0.036 0.038 0.902
σu = 1.3 −0.099 0.047 0.045 0.466 0.022 0.054 0.053 0.930
For survival
γ = −0.7 0.209 0.112 0.115 0.536 −0.072 0.151 0.152 0.910
ν0 = 0.4 −0.001 0.075 0.075 0.934
ν1 = 1.0 0.070 0.090 0.096 0.896