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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Scand Stat Theory Appl. 2014 Apr 15;42(1):104–117. doi: 10.1111/sjos.12097

Table 3.

Simulation Two: Model structure similar to the AIDS data; Estimation and inference results on α̂1, α̂2, β̂1, β̂2, β̂3, β̂4, β̂c1, β̂c2, β̂c3, β̂c4. The median, empirical standard error, estimated standard error and coverage rate of the 95% confidence intervals are reported.

Initial value α1
1		 α2
1		 β1
−0.5		 β2
0.6		 β3
−0.4
median 1.0011 1.0006 −0.5028 0.6029 −0.4064
emp se 0.0227 0.0270 0.1976 0.2319 0.1918
est se 0.0222 0.0264 0.1923 0.2339 0.1889
95% cov 94.1% 94.2% 94.1% 95.1% 95.6%
Initial value β4
0.3		 βc1
1.0		 βc2
−1.0		 βc3
0.5		 βc4
−0.5
median 0.3006 1.0247 −0.9934 0.5068 −0.4973
emp se 0.1366 0.2752 0.3325 0.2559 0.1829
est se 0.1368 0.2705 0.3263 0.2645 0.1919
95% cov 95.9% 94.7% 95.7% 96.2% 96.7%