Table 3. Relative bias and MSE of the parameters estimates under skew Student-t distributed errors.
| n | 100 | 200 | 500 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model | |||||||
| Bias | 1.1092 | 1.1489 | 1.0177 | 1.0559 | −2.4400 | 1.2461 | |
| MSE | 1.0263 | 1.0112 | 1.0160 | 1.0172 | 1.0454 | 1.0119 | |
| Bias | 1.1678 | 1.1670 | 1.0147 | 0.9766 | −1.7733 | 1.4539 | |
| MSE | 1.0680 | 1.0496 | 1.0515 | 1.0524 | 1.0722 | 1.0502 | |
| SSt | Bias | 0.0027 | −0.0048 | −0.0033 | −0.0014 | 0.0001 | −0.0007 |
| MSE | 0.0074 | 0.0084 | 0.0041 | 0.0039 | 0.0016 | 0.0016 | |
| SN | Bias | 0.2147 | 0.9159 | 1.4184 | 1.4412 | −24.2274 | 1.9104 |
| MSE | 1.5658 | 1.5123 | 1.4132 | 1.4089 | 1.5629 | 1.4771 | |
Note: For the SSt model, the pure bias and MSE of the estimates are reported.