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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2015 Sep 30;24(12):1286–1296. doi: 10.1002/pds.3876

Table 1.

Simulation Setup: Sensitivity Analyses

Violation Description
1 Treatment Model Misspecification I X1 removed from treatment modela
2 Treatment Model Misspecification II X2 removed from treatment modela
3 Treatment Model Misspecification III X3 removed from treatment modelb
4 Non-Normal Errors
εi~Gamma(α=8,β=2)8/2
5 Measurement Error
X1obs=X1+ξi;ξi~N(0,(1/20)2)
6 Proportional Treatment Effect
δi~N(Yi/5,(Yi/20)2)
a

- Only applies to IPTW and Heckman Model

b

- Only applies to Heckman model