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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2020 May 10;39(18):2447–2476. doi: 10.1002/sim.8549

TABLE A6.

Single Confounder Inclusion: simulation results for λ(Xj) using nonparametric estimation with n = 2000;

Variable 1 2 3 4 5
Setting 1
Truth 0.128 0.080 0.062 0.063 0.009
Estimate 0.127 0.073 0.063 0.058 0.008
Bias 0.001 0.007 −0.001 0.005 0.001
ESE 0.016 0.016 0.011 0.009 0.005
Setting 2
Truth 0.133 0.000 0.065 −0.004 0.009
Estimate 0.131 0.000 0.066 −0.003 0.008
Bias 0.001 0.000 −0.001 −0.001 0.001
ESE 0.016 0.004 0.011 0.005 0.005
Setting 3
Truth 0.189 0.065 −0.012 0.142 0.016
Estimate 0.187 0.066 −0.010 0.129 0.015
Bias 0.001 −0.001 −0.002 0.013 0.002
ESE 0.019 0.011 0.011 0.018 0.008
Setting 4
Truth 0.124 0.073 0.063 0.061 0.007
Estimate 0.125 0.070 0.062 0.056 0.008
Bias −0.002 0.004 0.001 0.005 0.000
ESE 0.016 0.016 0.011 0.010 0.006

ESE = empirical standard error (standard deviation of estimates across the 1,000 replications)