Table 1.

Simulation study results for the eight populations using Maximum Likelihood and Bayes.

Estimator	Outcome	Pop 1 50 (5) 50 (5)	Pop 2 50 (10) 50 (10)	Pop 3 25 (5) 25 (5)	Pop 4 25 (10) 25 (10)	Pop 5 10 (5) 10 (5)	Pop 6 10 (10) 10 (10)	Pop 7 5 (5) 5 (5)	Pop 8 5 (10) 5 (10)
ML	Mean (SD)	0.1247	0.1256	0.1249	0.1244	0.1249	0.1259	0.1238	0.1242
		(0.0713)	(0.0624)	(0.1105)	(0.0902)	(0.7643)	(0.1730)	(0.7178)	(0.4009)
	Bias	−0.24	0.48	−0.08	−0.48	−0.08	0.72	−0.96	−0.64
	95% Coverage	92%	92.9%	90.4%	91%	90.8%	88.6%	92%	89.6%
	5% Significance	33.1%	51.8%	9.3%	16.8%	2.8%	4.8%	4.2%	4.8%
Bayes	Mean (SD)	0.1125	0.1165	0.1046	0.1092	0.0869	0.0965	0.0662	0.0716
		(0.0753)	(0.0688)	(0.1152)	(0.0992)	(0.2392)	(0.2067)	(0.6044)	(0.5281)
	Bias	−10	−6.8	−16.32	−12.64	−30.48	−22.8	−47.04	−42.72
	95% Coverage	94.6%	95.2%	95.4%	94.5%	99.2%	97.9%	100%	99.9%
	5% Significance	50.3%	59.7%	15.2%	25.4%	1.2%	3.8%	0.1%	0.1%