Table IV.

Synthetic indices of relative bias, coverage and relative root mean square error (RSME) for the nine scenarios of exposure–lag–response associations. Results from m = 500 simulated data sets with n_s = 400 subjects

	Bias		Coverage		RMSE
f(x) − w(ℓ)	AIC	BIC	AIC	BIC	AIC	BIC
Linear-constant	0.01	0.01	0.91	0.94	0.07	0.04
Linear-decay	0.00	0.00	0.93	0.94	0.07	0.05
Linear-peak	0.01	0.01	0.92	0.90	0.08	0.07
Plateau-constant	0.06	0.13	0.84	0.72	0.08	0.09
Plateau-decay	0.04	0.14	0.90	0.74	0.09	0.13
Plateau-peak	0.07	0.21	0.87	0.62	0.11	0.18
Exponential-constant	0.01	0.03	0.90	0.80	0.09	0.09
Exponential-decay	0.05	0.04	0.93	0.87	0.12	0.13
Exponential-peak	0.00	0.17	0.91	0.75	0.12	0.17