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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Biostat. 2016 Nov 1;12(2):/j/ijb.2016.12.issue-2/ijb-2015-0034/ijb-2015-0034.xml. doi: 10.1515/ijb-2015-0034

Table 4a.

Results for various IPW and TMLE approaches in the plasmode simulation study (without truncation in the propensity score)

Approach Outcome Model Treatment Model Estimate SE Bias RMSE Finite fitted values*
IPW1 A NULL −1.19 0.04 0.86 0.86 100%
IPW2 A C1 −0.84 0.04 0.51 0.51 100%
IPW3 A C2 −0.57 0.08 0.24 0.25 100%
IPW4 A C3 −0.35 0.10 0.04 0.11 100%
TMLE1 A NULL −1.19 0.04 0.86 0.86 100%
TMLE2 A C1 −0.84 0.04 0.51 0.51 100%
TMLE3 A C2 −0.57 0.10 0.24 0.26 100%
TMLE4 A C3 −0.31 0.30 0.02 0.31 97.2%
TMLE5 A,C1 NULL −0.84 0.04 0.51 0.51 100%
TMLE6 A,C1 C1 −0.84 0.04 0.51 0.51 100%
TMLE7 A, C1 C2 −0.57 0.08 0.24 0.25 99.8%
TMLE8 A, C1 C3 −0.29 0.23 0.04 0.23 89.4%
TMLE9 A, C2 NULL −0.58 0.05 0.25 0.26 100%
TMLE10 A, C2 C1 −0.58 0.05 0.25 0.25 100%
TMLE11 A,C2 C2 −0.56 0.07 0.23 0.24 100%
TMLE12 A, C2 C3 −0.31 0.12 0.03 0.12 96.8%
TMLE13 A, C3 NULL −0.34 0.05 0.005 0.06 100%
TMLE14 A, C3 C1 −0.34 0.05 0.002 0.06 100%
TMLE15 A, C3 C2 −0.34 0.07 0.002 0.07 100%
TMLE16 A, C3 C3 −0.35 0.16 0.01 0.16 99%
*

Refers to settings in which the first step of the TMLE returned non-infinite predictions.