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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2021 Jun 22;40(23):5006–5024. doi: 10.1002/sim.9108

TABLE 3.

The mean percent (%) biases, average standard errors (ASE), empirical standard errors (ESE), and coverage probabilities (CP) are given for 1000 simulated datasets for the proposed method and naive method with βX1 = log(1.5), βZ1 = log(0.7), and βZ2 = log(1.3); e is distributed as either a t with 4 df or as .4N(0,1)+.6N(2,1.5)

Sea = 0.80, Spb = 0.90
Proposed
Naive
e c CR d β % Bias ASE ESE CP % Bias ASE ESE CP

t e 0.90 β X1 −2.238 0.291 0.300 0.953 −94.50 0.031 0.031 0.000
β Z1 0.622 0.152 0.157 0.951 −81.80 0.054 0.054 0.000
β Z2 2.529 0.152 0.148 0.957 −76.70 0.054 0.053 0.033
0.55 β X1 −0.646 0.140 0.153 0.940 −85.54 0.025 0.026 0.000
β Z1 −2.362 0.072 0.072 0.950 −53.37 0.045 0.044 0.013
β Z2 −3.303 0.071 0.072 0.950 −39.35 0.044 0.044 0.335

mix f 0.90 β X1 0.394 0.335 0.330 0.955 −95.64 0.027 0.028 0.000
β Z1 −1.015 0.158 0.158 0.953 −83.29 0.054 0.055 0.000
β Z2 −0.800 0.156 0.152 0.962 −75.25 0.054 0.056 0.055
0.55 β X1 −1.081 0.156 0.151 0.958 −88.74 0.022 0.022 0.000
β Z1 −2.415 0.074 0.070 0.958 −55.28 0.044 0.045 0.010
β Z2 −2.083 0.073 0.070 0.964 −36.40 0.044 0.045 0.419

Se = 0.90, Sp = 0.80
Proposed
Naive
δ^(1) CR β % Bias ASE ESE CP % Bias ASE ESE CP

t 0.90 β X1 −3.792 0.305 0.316 0.942 −96.91 0.025 0.025 0.000
β Z1 1.848 0.160 0.165 0.948 −89.40 0.044 0.044 0.000
β Z2 3.386 0.159 0.158 0.959 −86.97 0.044 0.044 0.000
0.55 β X1 −1.119 0.141 0.159 0.933 −90.02 0.023 0.024 0.000
β Z1 −1.666 0.073 0.073 0.940 −67.86 0.040 0.040 0.000
β Z2 −3.048 0.072 0.074 0.944 −58.35 0.040 0.040 0.031

mix 0.90 β X1 −0.975 0.350 0.346 0.952 −97.65 0.022 0.024 0.000
β Z1 −1.354 0.166 0.162 0.961 −90.94 0.043 0.044 0.000
β Z2 0.585 0.164 0.160 0.955 −86.57 0.043 0.045 0.000
0.55 β X1 −1.904 0.159 0.155 0.955 −92.26 0.020 0.021 0.000
β Z1 −2.590 0.075 0.072 0.954 −69.29 0.040 0.040 0.000
β Z2 −1.350 0.074 0.069 0.967 −56.67 0.040 0.039 0.036

Se = 1, Sp = 1
Truth
CR β % Bias ASE ESE CP

0.90 β X1 0.002 0.108 0.106 0.959
β Z1 0.034 0.108 0.109 0.951
β Z2 1.032 0.107 0.106 0.961

0.55 β X1 0.395 0.053 0.052 0.952
β Z1 −0.462 0.052 0.052 0.948
β Z2 −0.300 0.052 0.050 0.954
a

Se = Sensitivity.

b

Sp = Specificity.

c

e refers to the distribution of the error.

d

CR = True censoring rate.

e

t with 4 df.

f

Mixture of two normals, that is, .4N(0,1)+.6N(2,1.5).