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Published in final edited form as: Stat Methods Med Res. 2020 Oct 13;30(2):508–522. doi: 10.1177/0962280220962522

Table 3.

Summary statistics for estimates using data simulated from model introduced in Section 4.4 (i.e., a shared-frailty model). RB is the average relative bias, SD is the average posterior Standard-Deviation, and RMSE is the approximate square-root of mean square error.

		n=100			n=400
Methods	Parameter	RB	SD	RMSE	RB	SD	RMSE
JLCM with uniform prior for η	β	−0.031	0.200	0.202	−0.012	0.116	0.121
JLCM with uniform prior for η	γ	−0.157	0.207	0.260	−0.108	0.149	0.159
JLCM with Cauchy prior for η	β	−0.050	0.198	0.207	−0.003	0.153	0.152
JLCM with Cauchy prior for η	γ	−0.152	0.207	0.257	−0.105	0.151	0.163
Shared-frailty Model	β	−0.036	0.208	0.211	−0.006	0.144	0.143
Shared-frailty Model	γ	−0.122	0.235	0.265	−0.087	0.146	0.151