Table 4.

Estimating Excess Cumulative Incidence: Results from 500 Simulation

			Proposed Method				Ignornig Correlation of Random Effects
Cause	Center	True Value	Bias	ESD	ASE	CP	Relative MSE
1	14	−0.170	0.029	0.022	0.027	0.850	1.018
	16	−0.096	0.024	0.029	0.034	0.926	0.750
	17	−0.181	0.003	0.017	0.023	0.990	3.432
	38	−0.138	0.017	0.024	0.029	0.958	1.226
	1	−0.179	0.023	0.020	0.026	0.918	1.462
	36	0.006	−0.009	0.038	0.038	0.932	0.950
	4	−0.033	0.001	0.034	0.037	0.948	1.010
	49	−0.070	0.018	0.029	0.034	0.944	0.777
	32	−0.047	0.010	0.031	0.035	0.960	0.969
	34	0.005	0.001	0.035	0.039	0.948	1.028
	23	0.344	−0.022	0.045	0.047	0.934	1.279
	19	0.118	−0.013	0.043	0.045	0.904	0.939
	13	0.142	−0.015	0.044	0.046	0.942	1.036
	15	0.127	−0.007	0.043	0.044	0.938	1.082
	18	0.210	−0.022	0.047	0.048	0.904	0.988
2	26	−0.222	0.020	0.019	0.025	0.932	2.265
	25	−0.140	0.014	0.027	0.029	0.936	1.196
	20	−0.137	0.013	0.025	0.030	0.952	1.209
	23	−0.199	0.014	0.021	0.025	0.950	2.122
	5	−0.078	0.006	0.030	0.032	0.950	1.056
	29	−0.017	0.004	0.034	0.033	0.922	0.954
	11	−0.020	0.002	0.031	0.034	0.954	0.987
	45	−0.043	0.006	0.032	0.033	0.934	0.965
	34	−0.058	0.007	0.029	0.033	0.952	0.993
	9	−0.009	0.001	0.031	0.033	0.946	1.016
	41	0.203	−0.016	0.037	0.037	0.928	1.065
	40	0.158	−0.012	0.035	0.036	0.934	1.076
	31	0.157	−0.016	0.038	0.038	0.900	0.969
	17	0.371	−0.020	0.037	0.034	0.902	1.327
	14	0.111	−0.009	0.033	0.035	0.926	1.245