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. 2021 Feb 5;49(7):1784–1801. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2021.1882407

Table 1.

ML, Bayes estimates and their MSEs for cumulative cause-specific hazard function.

n=20 Cause 1 Cause 2
Time points 0.5 0.8 1.0 0.5 0.8 1.0
True value 0.314 0.44962 0.53625 0.28856 0.37611 0.429
ML Estimate 0.31166 0.46562 0.56964 0.28339 0.38589 0.45099
MSE 2.20604 4.13323 6.00515 2.21305 3.85869 5.26992
Uniform SELF Estimate 0.33451 0.47848 0.57189 0.29453 0.39727 0.462
MSE 1.00098 1.9108 2.71769 1.30191 2.28909 3.12379
Jeffrey’s SELF Estimate 0.31197 0.43964 0.52189 0.26571 0.3514 0.4049
MSE 1.00382 1.88687 2.65315 1.34578 2.26356 2.98688
Half-t SELF Estimate 0.32014 0.48209 0.5946 0.29548 0.40765 0.48072
MSE 2.08172 4.12568 6.37563 2.05055 3.70597 5.19398
Uniform LLF p=1.5 Estimate 0.32597 0.46312 0.55047 0.28569 0.38265 0.44251
MSE 0.94103 1.77863 2.49443 1.23144 2.10907 2.81362
Jeffrey’s LLF p=1.5 Estimate 0.30335 0.42442 0.5009 0.25726 0.33775 0.38697
MSE 0.97306 1.85059 2.60594 1.31385 2.1903 2.85998
Half-t LLF p=1.5 Estimate 0.30824 0.45992 0.56242 0.28435 0.38865 0.45486
MSE 1.88908 3.50911 5.08124 1.85609 3.15865 4.22126
Uniform LLF p=−1.5 Estimate 0.34346 0.49447 0.59423 0.30392 0.41285 0.48291
MSE 1.07572 2.08256 3.01731 1.39152 2.51823 3.52356
Jeffrey’s LLF p=−1.5 Estimate 0.32108 0.45568 0.54411 0.27476 0.3661 0.42439
MSE 1.04877 1.95989 2.76975 1.39482 2.37913 3.18899
Half-t LLF p=−1.5 Estimate 0.33345 0.50769 0.63363 0.30792 0.42955 0.51154
MSE 2.34904 5.05913 8.61909 2.31487 4.51397 6.76714