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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 27.
Published in final edited form as: Biom J. 2020 Jan 9;62(2):444–466. doi: 10.1002/bimj.201900051

Table 3. Simulation results for the analysis of clustered data using simulation scenario (iii),i.e., scenario with data missing in the covariate only.

Regression Parameters True value Available data JM-MLMM JM-FJ JM-FJ-het JM-SMC JM-SMC-het FCS LMM FCS-LMM-het
SEIFA, γ1^ 0.250 0.192 0.247 0.250 0.192 0.250 0.250 0.247 0.249
γ1^ rbias (%) 0.232 0.011 <0.001 0.232 0.001 0.001 0.011 0.004
Model SE 0.028 0.029 0.029 0.028 0.029 0.029 0.029 0.029
Empirical SE 0.028 0.028 0.028 0.028 0.028 0.028 0.028 0.028
95% Coverage 0.444 0.954 0.950 0.450 0.947 0.949 0.954 0.950
cbmi, γ2^ -0.200 -0.177 -0.196 -0.205 -0.177 -0.200 -0.200 -0.196 -0.198
γ2^ rbias (%) 0.115 0.019 0.027 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.020 0.009
Model SE 0.020 0.023 0.021 0.021 0.023 0.023 0.023 0.023
Empirical SE 0.021 0.023 0.024 0.021 0.024 0.024 0.023 0.023
95% Coverage 0.793 0.958 0.913 0.796 0.946 0.947 0.953 0.945
Variance components
G00 est 0.40 0.346 0.396 0.404 0.348 0.399 0.399 0.396 0.397
G00rbias (%) 0.136 0.011 0.010 0.115 0.002 0.002 0.011 0.007
G11 est 0.20 0.175 0.197 0.135 0.176 0.192 0.192 0.197 0.185
G11 rbias(%) 0.123 0.014 0.325 0.232 0.039 0.038 0.016 0.074
Residual error, σ^e 0.90 0.847 0.900 0.911 0.847 0.901 0.901 0.900 0.903
σ^e rbias (%) 0.058 <0.001 0.012 0.058 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.003