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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2015 Dec 2;35(10):1637–1653. doi: 10.1002/sim.6820

Table 2.

Performance of the proposed (R^S) and model-based estimators (R^SM and R^SF) in terms of bias, empirical standard deviation (ESD), average standard deviation (ASD) obtained using the proposed perturbation-resampling approach, mean squared error (MSE) and coverage of the 95% confidence intervals obtained using both the quantiles of the perturbed estimates (Quantile) and Fieller's method (Fieller), in Setting (iii) where there are three surrogate markers and the models assumed by the flexible model-based estimator, R^SM, are correctly specified, and Setting (iv) where there are three surrogate markers and the specified models are not correct with nT = nS = 200 and with nT = nS = 1000.

Setting (iii) Model Correctly Specified
nT = 200, nC = 200
RS = 0.20 RS = 0.50 RS = 0.90

S R^SM R^SF S R^SM R^SF S R^SM R^SF

Bias −0.0023 −0.0003 −0.0045 −0.0049 0.000 −0.0103 −0.0047 0.0041 −0.0014
ESD 0.0201 0.0189 0.0182 0.0423 0.0385 0.0367 0.0846 0.0772 0.0745
ASD 0.0200 0.0191 0.0183 0.0412 0.0389 0.0367 0.0814 0.0781 0.0746
MSE 0.0004 0.0004 0.0003 0.0018 0.0015 0.0015 0.0072 0.006 0.0055
Coverage (Quantile) 0.946 0.952 0.937 0.931 0.946 0.926 0.924 0.943 0.934
Coverage (Fieller) 0.950 0.951 0.941 0.936 0.949 0.932 0.929 0.942 0.938
nT = 1000, nC = 1000
RS = 0.20 RS = 0.50 RS = 0.90

S R^SM R^SF S R^SM R^SF S R^SM R^SF

Bias −0.0001 0.0004 −0.0039 −0.0001 0.0011 −0.0096 0.0005 0.0027 −0.0036
ESD 0.0091 0.0086 0.0081 0.0190 0.0175 0.0164 0.0364 0.0338 0.0323
ASD 0.0089 0.0085 0.0082 0.0184 0.0173 0.0163 0.0357 0.0338 0.0322
MSE 0.0001 0.0001 0.0001 0.0004 0.0003 0.0004 0.0013 0.0011 0.0011
Coverage (Quantile) 0.948 0.947 0.922 0.945 0.946 0.907 0.948 0.949 0.943
Coverage (Fieller) 0.950 0.948 0.923 0.948 0.947 0.908 0.948 0.950 0.945
Setting (iv) Model Misspecified
nT = 200, nC = 200
RS = 0.20 RS = 0.50 RS = 0.90

RQ = 0.206 RF = 0.211 RQ = 0.523 RF = 0.546 RQ = 0.924 RF = 0.926

S R^SM R^SF S R^SM R^SF S R^SM R^SF

Bias −0.0031 0.0190 −0.0169 −0.0095 0.0462 −0.0941 −0.0138 0.0887 −0.0850
ESD 0.0259 0.0360 0.0283 0.0458 0.0742 0.0528 0.0298 0.0952 0.0664
ASD 0.0260 0.0351 0.0277 0.0463 0.0720 0.0517 0.0313 0.0934 0.0655
MSE 0.0007 0.0017 0.0011 0.0022 0.0076 0.0116 0.0011 0.0169 0.0116
Coverage (Quantile) 0.943 0.909 0.888 0.935 0.894 0.501 0.912 0.826 0.699
Coverage(Fieller) 0.941 0.924 0.884 0.936 0.907 0.480 0.944 0.847 0.704
nT = 1000, nC = 1000
RS = 0.20 RS = 0.50 RS = 0.90

RQ = 0.206 RF = 0.211 RQ = 0.523 RF = 0.546 RQ = 0.924 RF = 0.926

S R^SM R^SF S R^SM R^SF S R^SM R^SF

Bias −0.0008 0.0186 −0.0171 −0.0024 0.0468 −0.0930 −0.0035 0.0875 −0.0859
ESD 0.0114 0.0155 0.0121 0.0196 0.0316 0.0224 0.0125 0.0411 0.0289
ASD 0.0117 0.0159 0.0125 0.0203 0.0323 0.0232 0.0126 0.0411 0.0289
MSE 0.0001 0.0006 0.0004 0.0004 0.0032 0.0091 0.0002 0.0094 0.0082
Coverage (Quantile) 0.956 0.788 0.719 0.960 0.701 0.012 0.926 0.443 0.142
Coverage(Fieller) 0.957 0.808 0.714 0.960 0.715 0.010 0.939 0.464 0.134