Table 2.

Simulation results for estimation of and .

	True	Method		B	MAD	RMAD	CP		B	MAD	RMAD	CP
Estimation of
[0.05in]	6.931	Ideal		0.034	0.245	0.247	0.950		0.013	0.122	0.123	0.982
Case 1
0.1	6.931	EC		0.007	0.379	0.474	0.948		0.007	0.168	0.197	0.978
0.3	6.931	EC		0.041	0.498	0.637	0.942		0.032	0.242	0.272	0.950
0.5	6.931	EC		0.101	0.582	0.805	0.913		0.104	0.283	0.345	0.948
0.7	6.931	EC		0.211	0.632	0.894	0.922		0.141	0.333	0.411	0.910
Case 2
0.1	6.931	EC		0.013	0.402	0.452	0.906		0.007	0.176	0.195	0.964
0.3	6.931	EC		0.033	0.440	0.603	0.940		0.041	0.211	0.256	0.962
0.5	6.931	EC		0.016	0.578	0.776	0.920		0.064	0.286	0.324	0.936
0.7	6.931	EC		0.059	0.700	0.966	0.890		0.086	0.320	0.394	0.936
Case 3
0.1	6.931	EC		0.001	0.353	0.412	0.934		0.015	0.149	0.179	0.952
0.3	6.931	EC		0.019	0.367	0.477	0.964		0.012	0.186	0.211	0.958
0.5	6.931	EC		0.026	0.425	0.549	0.970		0.025	0.228	0.249	0.958
0.7	6.931	EC		0.043	0.550	0.676	0.920		0.013	0.265	0.293	0.938
Estimation of
Case 1
0.1	6.720	Naive		0.039	0.255	0.255	0.940		0.009	0.114	0.127	0.958
0.3	6.411	Naive		0.032	0.283	0.263	0.968		0.040	0.119	0.132	0.956
0.5	6.186	Naive		0.053	0.271	0.270	0.942		0.013	0.142	0.134	0.964
0.7	6.017	Naive		0.035	0.264	0.274	0.938		0.011	0.135	0.136	0.974
Case 2
0.1	6.720	Naive		0.036	0.262	0.255	0.940		0.011	0.125	0.127	0.958
0.3	6.411	Naive		0.026	0.257	0.265	0.952		0.015	0.121	0.131	0.952
0.5	6.186	Naive		0.022	0.255	0.271	0.942		0.008	0.126	0.134	0.954
0.7	6.017	Naive		0.019	0.261	0.274	0.940		0.011	0.121	0.136	0.962
Case 3
0.1	6.818	Naive		0.023	0.251	0.253	0.958		0.001	0.121	0.126	0.940
0.3	6.629	Naive		0.023	0.243	0.258	0.958		0.000	0.135	0.129	0.942
0.5	6.476	Naive		0.016	0.258	0.262	0.954		0.003	0.131	0.131	0.954
0.7	6.347	Naive		0.018	0.274	0.267	0.938		0.005	0.136	0.132	0.948

EC, error corrected; B, empirical bias based on the median; MAD, empirical median absolute deviation; RMAD, resampling median absolute deviation; CP, empirical coverage probability of 95% confidence interval.