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Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2016 May 16;27(3):812–831. doi: 10.1177/0962280216643347

Table 1.

Parameter values for the simulation scenarios examined.

Variance
components

(σ_{u}^{2}, σ_{v}^{2})

Random effects distributions

Number of items I,
Number of raters J

(1, 5)

(5, 1)

u_i ~ Exp(λ) and v_j ~ Unif(a, −a)

(I=100, J=10)

(5, 20)

u_{i} ~ N (0, σ_{u}^{2}) and v_{j} ~ N (0, σ_{v}^{2})

(I=250, J=100)

(20, 5)

(10, 10)