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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J R Stat Soc Ser A Stat Soc. 2015 Mar 17;178(4):903–923. doi: 10.1111/rssa.12101

Table 2.

Percent bias and confidence interval coverage of misspecified log-duration joint model parameters.

parameters Survival:
Frailty:
Simulation Scenarios
Weibull
Normal
Weibull
log-gamma
lognormal
Normal
α % bias
95% CI
0.3%
95.6%
2%
80.5%
3%
46.1%
β % bias
95% CI
−0.3%
95.3%
−0.2%
95.8%
2%
45.5%
τ % bias
95% CI
−0.1%
96.6%
−0.3%
94.3%
-
-
κ % bias
95% CI
0.02%
94.7%
4%
66.7%
2%
87.1%
σ % bias
95% CI
−1%
94.2%
0.7%
94.8%
1%
92.5%
5-year mean HPV
clearance
% bias
95% CI
−0.08%
-
−0.1%
-
−0.3%
-
5-year stdev HPV
clearance
% bias
95% CI
0.06%
-
4%
-
7%
-
5-year mean
precancer/cancer risk
% bias
95% CI
−0.8%
-
2%
-
2%
-
5-year stdev
precancer/cancer risk
% bias
95% CI
0.2%
-
−8%
-
6%
-