Table 1 . The means and standard deviations (STD) of the number of iterations required for computing MQE $\widehat{\mathit{}\mathbf{\beta }}$ in a simulation with 1000 replications.

	p	50			100			200
n	r	0.5	1	2	0.5	1	2	0.5	1	2
300	Mean	22.2	27.1	31.3	18.1	20.7	22.2	10.6	11.4	12.1
	STD	6.0	7.1	8.0	4.3	4.8	5.0	2.0	2.3	2.3
800	Mean	30.4	41.3	53.0	31.5	38.0	44.6	25.6	28.9	31.7
	STD	8.5	10.5	13.9	6.9	8.0	9.9	4.8	5.4	5.5