Table 1.

Comparison of Bayesian estimates using data simulated from a JLCM with a same covariate effects on recurrence and termination risks: RB is the relative bias, SD is the average posterior Standard-Deviation, and RMSE is the square-root of mean square error based on 500 replicates.

		n=100			n=400
Methods	Paramter	RB	SD	RMSE	RB	SD	RMSE
JLCM with uniform prior for η	α	−0.026	0.421	0.165	−0.004	0.331	0.160
	β	−0.008	0.198	0.193	−0.005	0.139	0.137
	γ	−0.094	0.220	0.214	−0.057	0.154	0.177
	η1	0.022	0.262	0.097	0.006	0.221	0.083
	η2	0.078	0.433	0.145	0.004	0.381	0.124
	K	0.159	0.877	0.480	0.150	0.801	0.451
JLCM with Cauchy prior for η	α	0.043	0.497	0.211	0.008	0.361	0.185
	β	−0.081	0.187	0.203	0.005	0.122	0.111
	γ	−0.126	0.218	0.250	−0.074	0.146	0.205
	η1	−0.942	0.028	0.377	−0.918	0.014	0.367
	η2	−0.909	0.083	0.727	−0.948	0.016	0.758
	K	0.852	0.475	1.727	0.862	0.542	1.752
Shared-frailty Model	β	−0.163	0.207	0.263	−0.147	0.152	0.212
	γ	−0.127	0.245	0.276	−0.084	0.217	0.178