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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2013 Oct 22;33(6):1001–1014. doi: 10.1002/sim.5994

Table 2.

Bias of the MLE of θ2 for θ2 = ψ0 under the six choices of (β1, θ1) for n = 100, 000 and K = 6. θ̂2 is the MLE of θ2, E [θ̂2] is the mean of the estimates θ̂2 over the 20, 000 simulation runs and Bias(θ̂2, θ2) = E [θ̂2] − θ2.

β1 θ1 θ2 E [θ̂2] Bias(θ̂2, θ2)
−2.0 −2.0 −0.8 −0.8006 −0.0006
−0.5 −0.5 −0.8 −0.8006 −0.0006
0.0 −0.5 −0.8 −0.8006 −0.0006
−0.5 0.0 −0.8 −0.8004 −0.0004
0.5 −2.0 −0.8 −0.8004 −0.0004
2.0 −2.0 −0.8 −0.7992 0.0008