Table 2.

Simulations results: relative bias of model parameters for low separation setting according to the number of individuals, n, and to the censoring rate, τ

		Longitudinal sub-model						Survival sub-model
n	τ	${\widehat{\sigma }}_b$	${\widehat{\sigma }}_{\epsilon }$	${\widehat{\beta }}_{0g}$		${\widehat{\beta }}_{1g}$		${\widehat{\zeta }}_{1g}$		${\widehat{\zeta }}_{2g}$
				g=1	g=2	g=1	g=2	g=1	g=2	g=1	g=2
100	5	0.2157	22.3405	0.9001	1.1061	0.6187	77.4912	0.1821	5.5733	2.6803	14.4064
	10	3.3939	22.1855	1.1485	0.5399	0.2169	129.4999	0.7945	5.9039	2.4429	14.9468
	15	0.2315	22.2708	1.3985	0.0946	0.4619	175.0008	1.4886	6.5439	2.4417	16.5623
	25	1.5321	22.1504	1.8233	1.7052	1.6413	273.7677	3.1293	6.4496	3.1511	20.3027
	50	1.3699	21.7546	3.6344	5.3290	4.6976	532.4839	8.3763	9.3616	7.9156	30.6630
500	5	0.2556	21.5565	0.2726	0.0707	0.6062	36.0688	0.4649	0.1000	0.0440	0.5662
	10	1.9185	21.3569	0.4126	0.8612	1.1048	79.5267	1.1380	0.1392	0.0640	0.9334
	15	3.4729	21.2975	0.6091	1.3911	1.5773	120.2866	1.6905	0.6533	0.1375	1.3348
	25	0.1728	20.9193	0.9847	3.0168	2.8914	212.8892	3.0037	1.7108	0.1707	2.2996
	50	1.7796	19.8756	2.3534	7.4185	7.8224	444.8984	8.3268	2.8825	0.9417	4.7449
1000	5	0.0184	20.1206	0.5111	0.9550	0.8944	44.8903	0.6416	0.3375	0.6727	0.2864
	10	0.0302	20.0392	0.6927	1.5469	1.3819	87.2876	1.2630	0.2644	0.8368	0.0338
	15	0.0424	19.8918	0.8955	2.1650	1.8632	139.1406	1.8765	0.0905	0.9058	0.2346
	25	0.0763	19.6487	1.3465	3.5027	3.2279	240.5047	3.3728	0.7920	1.0379	0.6998
	50	0.2146	18.4371	2.7442	8.0212	7.5645	482.3023	8.8312	2.2757	1.4414	3.6641
5000	5	1.6360	19.8545	0.0630	0.8358	0.6849	48.0499	0.6231	0.9167	0.0643	0.5431
	10	0.0529	19.7483	0.2447	1.4861	1.2312	95.3766	1.2469	1.1418	0.1531	0.6085
	15	1.5950	19.6407	0.4366	2.1381	1.7922	142.7663	1.9299	1.3603	0.2632	0.9193
	25	0.1003	19.3803	0.8741	3.5248	3.0292	240.2600	3.4624	1.9415	0.5656	1.3986
	50	0.2294	18.2465	2.2807	7.9142	7.5368	487.8892	8.8603	3.0965	0.9679	3.1725

The estimations of the error and the random intercept standard deviations (${\widehat{\sigma }}_{\epsilon }$ and ${\widehat{\sigma }}_b$ respectively), of the intercept and the slope (${\widehat{\beta }}_{0g},{\widehat{\beta }}_{1g}$ respectively) from the longitudinal sub-model and of Weibull scale and shape from the survival sub-model (${\widehat{\zeta }}_{1g}$ and ${\widehat{\zeta }}_{2g}$ respectively) are presented. g: class membership identification