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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 21.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrika. 2007 Dec;94(4):841–860. doi: 10.1093/biomet/asm070

Table 2.

Results from the second simulation study. Bias is 100 times the Monte Carlo mean minus true parameter value, SD is 100 times the Monte Carlo standard deviation, Cov is the Monte Carlo coverage probability times 100.

qt Estimand Misspec. Bias SD Cov
0 β1 = 3 None 0.08 10.60 94.6
B2,C3 & B4 0.12 10.30 94.0
All 1.74 9.58 95.7

β2 = 2 None 0.007 4.25 95.3
B2,C3 & B4 −0.66 3.68 95.9
All −10.7 3.87 17.2

−0.5Yt β1 = 3 None 1.70 12.00 95.7
B2,C3 & B4 1.36 12.20 93.1
All 3.37 11.30 91.2

β2 = 2 None 1.31 6.43 96.7
B2,C3 & B4 −4.21 7.69 88.1
All −24.8 9.10 5.71

None, no model misspecification; B2,C3 & B4, misspecification of models B2,C3 and B4; All, misspecification of Ct and Bt for each t.