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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 8.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2015 May 26;34(26):3381–3398. doi: 10.1002/sim.6532

Table VI.

Median log difference across configurations of bias, interval width, and RMSE of methods described in Section 1.4 versus MITSS, by interval estimates coverage for multivariate X (for all configurations with JSD < 0.3).

Method Type Percent Absolute bias Interval width RMSE
MITSS-PS A 41 0.27 0.15 0.27
B 8 0.42 0.09 0.42
C 22 0.19 0.38 0.19
D 29 0.34 0.19 0.34
MITSS-15 A 61 0.41 0.52 0.41
B 12 1.43 1.68 1.43
C 2 0.21 0.35 0.21
D 25 0.36 0.31 0.35
M–N–m A 51 0.13 −0.13 0.13
B 22 0.21 −0.37 0.21
C 12 0.08 0.19 0.08
D 15 0.18 −0.27 0.18
M–C–m A 37 0.22 0.1 0.22
B 10 0.36 0.02 0.36
C 26 −0.12 0.09 −0.12
D 27 0.1 −0.06 0.1
DR A 46 0.28 1.05 0.28
B 9 1.95 2.38 1.95
C 17 −0.97 −0.39 −0.97
D 28 −0.51 −0.09 −0.51
IPW1 A 39 2.85 3.68 2.85
B 13 1.94 2.28 1.94
C 24 1.73 3.13 1.77
D 24 0.86 1.61 0.88
FM A 48 0.21 0.03 0.21
B 16 0.33 −0.15 0.33
C 15 −0.08 0.00 −0.08
D 21 −0.10 −0.44 −0.11

Differences are displayed as alternative methods to MITSS.

The types are configurations for which 95% interval estimates has the following coverages characteristics: A, MITSS ≥ 0.9 and Method ≥ 0.9; B, MITSS < 0.9 and Method ≥ 0.9; C, MITSS ≥ 0.9 and Method < 0.9; D, MITSS < 0.9 and Method < 0.9.