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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2014 Feb 27;33(20):3509–3527. doi: 10.1002/sim.6120

Table 5.

Simulation Results: Biases and Coverage of Model Estimates

Scenario
Assumption Violation
I
-
II
(A4)
III
(A3) & (A5)
IV
(A3)–(A5)
λ1x=λ2x=0.5
β1z (s.e.) 0.009 (0.049) 0.004 (0.063) −0.012 (0.029) 0.008(0.027)
coverage 0.888 0.826 0.914 0.888
β2z (s.e.) −0.014 (0.072) −0.014 (0.073) −0.040 (0.034) −0.025 (0.038)
coverage 0.794 0.726 0.714 0.728

E(Λ1,11z)
0.016 −0.014 −0.222 −0.233
E(Λ1,21z)
−0.007 0.006 0.077 0.080
E(Λ1,22z)
0.003 −0.002 −0.074 −0.075
E(Λ2,11z)
0.006 −0.008 −0.066 −0.071
E(Λ2,21z)
−0.005 0.006 0.008 0.011
E(Λ2,22z)
0.005 −0.006 0.006 0.007

λ1x=0.5,λ2x=1
β1z 0.005 (0.052) 0.012 (0.055) −0.005 (0.028) −0.006 (0.047)
coverage 0.926 0.886 0.714 0.774
β2z −0.030 (0.071) −0.028 (0.079) −0.043 (0.037) −0.008 (0.057)
coverage 0.764 0.768 0.728 0.638

E(Λ1,11z)
0.007 −0.004 −0.210 −0.220
E(Λ1,21z)
−0.002 0.001 0.070 0.074
E(Λ1,22z)
−0.001 0.002 −0.071 −0.072
E(Λ2,11z)
−0.002 0.0004 −0.054 −0.061
E(Λ2,21z)
0.002 −0.002 0.002 0.004
E(Λ2,22z)
−0.001 0.001 0.010 0.010