. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 15.

Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2018 Feb 26;37(13):2108–2119. doi: 10.1002/sim.7627

Table 1.

Results from 100 simulations under the three level mixed effects location scale model : Mean Model Parameters

Model	β^intercept = 1			β^subj = 1			β^wave = 1			β^obs = 1

	Bias	AIW	COV	Bias	AIW	COV	Bias	AIW	COV	Bias	AIW	COV
Two Level MRM HV	−0.0274	0.3973	46%	−0.0005	0.3953	91%	−0.0081	0.2075	17%	0.0003	0.0613	96%
Two Level MLS	−0.0292	0.4050	52%	0.0009	0.4000	94%	−0.0075	0.2103	19%	0.0011	0.0577	96%
Three Level MRM HV	−0.0288	1.6993	98%	−0.0018	0.3976	95%	−0.0006	1.8039	97%	−0.0019	0.0510	98%
Three Level MLS	−0.0257	1.6873	99%	−0.0014	0.3989	93%	−0.0016	1.8150	95%	−0.0010	0.0404	94%

AIW: average 95% credible interval; COV: 95% coverage rate out of 100 simulations.