Table 5.

Parameter and variance estimates under a more complex model allowing for interaction effects between the latent groups and RS score (number of simulations = 300, sample size in each dataset = 1000); true β = (0.1, −0.5, 0.03)

	β̂z			β̂a			β̂za
Method	Emean	Evar	$\widehat{\mathit{\text{var}}}$	Emean	Evar	$\widehat{\mathit{\text{var}}}$	Emean	Evar	$\widehat{\mathit{\text{var}}}$
wtd PP	0.10	0.00038	0.00036	−0.46	0.042	0.040	0.028	0.00063	0.00060
PL	0.10	0.00036	0.00041	−0.51	0.046	0.047	0.031	0.00064	0.00069
FL	0.10	0.00036	0.00031	−0.51	0.047	0.036	0.029	0.00065	0.00056