. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 5.

Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2015 Sep 21;30(4):911–929. doi: 10.1037/pag0000046

Table 8.

Relative Efficiency, N = 500, Simulation B

Listwise

Log

CART

30%

50%

30%

50%

30%

50%

30%

50%

30%

50%

{\bar{X}}_{2}

Linear

1.020

.924

.985

.984

1.022

1.038

1.057

1.340

.954

.816

One split

.855

.930

1.158

.961

1.010

1.021

2.135

1.395

.813

.811

Two splits

.924

.823

.925

.99

.990

.997

1.177

1.650

.805

.764

Three splits

.912

.858

.892

.824

1.017

.975

1.056

1.102

.825

.727

{\bar{Y}}_{2}

Linear

.972

.907

.945

.893

1.024

.985

1.020

1.226

.945

.728

One split

.833

.979

1.297

.869

.982

.942

1.813

1.187

.729

.691

Two splits

.920

.887

.809

.815

.960

.982

1.205

1.597

.749

.669

Three splits

.921

.955

.854

.793

1.019

.937

1.019

1.272

.801

.714

σ_{X_{2}}^{2}

Linear

.925

.819

.952

1.042

1.034

1.055

1.037

1.301

.889

.785

One split

.752

.931

1.166

1.048

1.022

1.019

1.843

1.268

.735

.85

Two splits

.858

.769

.916

.993

1.089

1.037

1.294

1.408

.867

.725

Three splits

.792

.855

.900

.956

1.096

1.049

1.138

1.096

.792

.830

σ_{Y_{2}}^{2}

Linear

.971

.985

1.176

1.030

1.083

.976

1.206

.809

.814

One split

.694

.897

1.834

1.179

.983

.953

1.167

1.070

.631

.678

Two splits

.736

.681

.794

.921

1.023

.962

1.173

1.015

.729

.610

Three splits

.757

.773

.909

.948

1.008

.998

1.011

1.098

.707

.649

σ_{X_{2}, Y_{2}}

Linear

.936

.887

.965

1.128

1.022

1.116

1.023

1.331

.848

.774

One split

.695

.900

1.575

1.098

1.016

.962

1.576

1.077

.689

.723

Two splits

.789

.727

.835

.939

1.037

.975

1.151

1.218

.794

.635

Three splits

.733

.838

.853

.967

1.026

1.036

1.001

1.108

.741

.685

Note. Relative efficiency ratios computed over SD_Prune. Log = logistic regression; CART = classification and regression trees; RF = random forests; MI = multiple imputation.