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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 3.

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

Parameters Reduced model
Joint model
Bias SE SD CP Bias SE SD CP
For longitudinal outcomes
 β10 = 0.4 0.002 0.068 0.070 0.932 0.001 0.068 0.069 0.930
 β11 = −0.5 −0.003 0.092 0.095 0.944 −0.001 0.093 0.096 0.946
 ρ = 0.4 0.004 0.034 0.035 0.934 0.005 0.034 0.035 0.934
 σu = 1.3 0.003 0.048 0.049 0.946 0.001 0.048 0.048 0.954
For survival
 γ =−0.7 −0.028 0.129 0.128 0.944 −0.009 0.141 0.138 0.950
 ν0 = 0 −0.009 0.075 0.078 0.940
 ν1 = 0 0.006 0.061 0.062 0.926