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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol. 2016 Dec 26;17(3-4):175–197. doi: 10.1007/s10742-016-0168-2

Table 2.

Simulation study results with n = 2000; Maximum ASB, Standardized Bias, Standardized Var, and Standardized MSE all multiplied by 100, tm(Y, X) indicates the MSE-based method that uses outcome information, tm(X) indicates the MSE-based method that does not use outcome information, ta(0.20) and ta(0.10) indicate the ASB-based methods that use a 0.20 and 0.10 threshold, respectively, tp(0.05) and tp(0.10) indicate the p-value based methods that use a 0.05 and 0.10 threshold, respectively

n=2000

Setting (i) Setting (ii) Setting (i) Setting (ii)
Method # of Trees Maximum ASB


Unweighted 70.45 70.45
TWANG 926 924 12.57 12.68
tm(Y, X) 695 892 13.15 12.66
tm(X) 868 864 12.56 12.68
ta(0.20) 317 319 18.89 18.90
ta(0.10) 907 913 12.81 12.82
tp(0.05) 913 916 12.59 12.69
tp(0.10) 926 924 12.57 12.68
Standardized Bias Standardized Var


Unweighted 11.02 36.79 0.22 0.22
TWANG 2.03 6.98 0.28 0.23
tm(Y, X) 2.14 6.98 0.28 0.23
tm(X) 2.04 6.99 0.28 0.23
ta(0.20) 3.15 10.45 0.26 0.21
ta(0.10) 2.07 7.05 0.28 0.23
tp(0.05) 2.03 6.98 0.28 0.23
tp(0.10) 2.03 6.98 0.28 0.23
Standardized MSE Design effect


Unweighted 1.43 13.75 1 1
TWANG 0.32 0.72 1.26 1.26
tm(Y, X) 0.32 0.72 1.25 1.26
tm(X) 0.32 0.72 1.26 1.26
ta(0.20) 0.36 1.30 1.18 1.18
ta(0.10) 0.32 0.73 1.26 1.26
tp(0.05) 0.32 0.72 1.26 1.26
tp(0.10) 0.32 0.72 1.26 1.26