Table 1.

Bias, precision and coverage probabilities of the intercepts of the log-transformed transition rates using the proposed method; results are based on 933 duplicated data sets and observation intervals are equal to 1 time unit; PB: percentage of bias; SD: standard deviations of the point estimates; SE: square roots of the means of the estimated variances; MSE: means of the squared errors; CP: nominal coverage probabilities.

	γ12	γ13	γ14	γ21	γ23	γ24	γ31	γ32	γ34	γ41	γ42	γ43
TRUE	−1.050	−1.610	−2.120	−1.200	−0.690	−1.900	−2.300	−0.920	−1.200	−2.210	−1.560	−1.270
Bias	−0.006	−0.032	−0.010	0.002	−0.001	−0.017	−0.012	−0.001	−0.009	−0.002	−0.020	−0.016
PB(%)	0.590	2.015	0.477	−0.163	0.126	0.885	0.526	0.122	0.758	0.073	1.249	1.241
SD	0.126	0.190	0.138	0.106	0.096	0.122	0.133	0.103	0.090	0.107	0.148	0.119
SE	0.116	0.183	0.134	0.109	0.093	0.126	0.130	0.101	0.088	0.104	0.145	0.116
MSE	0.016	0.037	0.019	0.011	0.009	0.015	0.018	0.011	0.008	0.012	0.022	0.014
CP	0.924	0.948	0.936	0.955	0.941	0.953	0.946	0.933	0.943	0.939	0.937	0.944