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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2013 Nov 20;33(8):1395–1408. doi: 10.1002/sim.6039

Table II.

Comparisons of Computational Efficiency MCMC and EM-based Algorithms with respect to Computational Times.

MCMC SEM MCEM True Value
Prevalence probability:
a1 -2.6 -1.9 -1.8 -2.2
α1 0.1 0.3 -0.2 0.1

Transition probability:
a2 -3.5 -3.3 -3.4 -3.6
a3 5.4 5.9 5.7 5.4
α2 0.2 -0.4 -0.1 0.1
α3 0.3 1.1 0.3 0.2

Misclassification probability:
b1 -4 -4.1 -4.2 -4.2
b2 5.3 5.3 5.5 5.5
λ1 -0.5 0.0 0.3 -0.1
λ2 2.4 1.8 2.2 2

σ1 2.5 1.0 1.9 2

Computation Time <1 hr 5 hr >2 Days