Table 4.

Estimation results of θ based on the proposed procedure and the one given by Zhao et al. (2013), when g(x) = log(x) and ξ₀ = 0.

θ0	n = 100			n = 200
	BIAS	${\mathit{BIAS}}_1^{\ast }$	${\mathit{BIAS}}_2^{\ast }$	BIAS	${\mathit{BIAS}}_1^{\ast }$	${\mathit{BIAS}}_2^{\ast }$
γ0 = 0.5
0	0.008	−0.140	−0.118	0.000	−0.148	−0.135
0.2	0.003	−0.162	−0.141	−0.002	−0.154	−0.143
0.5	−0.009	−0.167	−0.139	−0.011	−0.169	−0.149
γ0 = 0.8
0	−0.007	−0.208	−0.196	0.000	−0.212	−0.181
0.2	−0.005	−0.210	−0.202	−0.002	−0.224	−0.198
0.5	−0.009	−0.220	−0.192	−0.011	−0.246	−0.195