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. 2021 Apr 24;49(11):2740–2766. doi: 10.1080/02664763.2021.1918649

Table 3.

Biases and MSEs of MLEs, widths and coverage probabilities of confidence intervals for regression parameters with the dimension q = 2 and 3.

n   α10 α11 α12 β10 β11 β12 β20 β21 β22 β30 β31 β32
q = 2
100 Bias −0.2948 0.1716 −0.1231 −0.0021 0.0106 −0.0130 −0.0174 0.0224 −0.0089      
  CP 0.9600 0.9560 0.9740 0.9360 0.9360 0.9280 0.9130 0.9190 0.9501      
  Width 7.5060 4.7936 3.0683 1.7440 1.1360 0.6528 1.8381 1.2030 0.6989      
  MSE 1.9148 1.2229 0.7828 0.4449 0.2898 0.1665 0.4689 0.3067 0.1783      
300 Bias −0.1571 0.1396 −0.1526 −0.0006 0.0105 −0.0126 −0.0071 0.0128 −0.0092      
  CP 0.9380 0.9420 0.9480 0.9400 0.9370 0.9280 0.9480 0.9410 0.9440      
  Width 4.1000 2.6239 1.6894 0.9939 0.6475 0.3727 1.0482 0.6866 0.3986      
  MSE 1.0459 0.6694 0.4310 0.2536 0.1652 0.0951 0.2674 0.1752 0.1017      
500 Bias −0.0760 0.0972 −0.1253 −0.0020 0.0090 −0.0082 −0.0147 0.0190 −0.0120      
  CP 0.9510 0.9530 0.9440 0.9350 0.9400 0.9290 0.9320 0.9320 0.9290      
  Width 3.1301 2.0067 1.2769 0.7697 0.5017 0.2883 0.8105 0.5310 0.3081      
  MSE 0.7985 0.5119 0.3257 0.1963 0.1280 0.0735 0.2068 0.1355 0.0786      
q = 3
100 Bias −0.0921 0.0093 −0.0801 −0.0090 −0.0002 0.0094 0.0170 −0.0075 0.0048 0.0132 −0.0015 −0.0033
  CP 0.9660 0.9710 0.9690 0.9170 0.9340 0.9390 0.9440 0.9390 0.9310 0.9410 0.9350 0.9490
  Width 4.9825 2.2885 2.8878 1.2186 0.5883 0.6738 1.2612 0.6180 0.7050 1.2949 0.6150 0.7246
  MSE 1.2711 0.5838 0.7367 0.3109 0.1501 0.1719 0.3217 0.1577 0.1798 0.3303 0.1569 0.1848
300 Bias −0.1095 0.0497 −0.0442 0.0043 −0.0022 0.0035 0.0085 −0.0026 −0.0023 0.0142 −0.0045 −0.0047
  CP 0.9540 0.9530 0.9560 0.9330 0.9300 0.9260 0.9240 0.9300 0.9400 0.9310 0.9340 0.9350
  Width 2.7472 1.2556 1.5657 0.6942 0.3353 0.3853 0.7190 0.3521 0.4035 0.7353 0.3493 0.4147
  MSE 0.3509 0.1605 0.1993 0.0887 0.0428 0.0492 0.0919 0.0450 0.0515 0.0939 0.0446 0.0530
500 Bias −0.0439 0.0244 −0.0327 0.0028 0.0003 −0.0017 −0.0037 0.0021 0.0029 −0.0063 0.0042 −0.0012
  CP 0.9580 0.9560 0.9520 0.9430 0.9520 0.9470 0.9400 0.9370 0.9250 0.9340 0.9350 0.9260
  Width 2.0987 0.9619 1.1957 0.5362 0.2590 0.2976 0.5560 0.2724 0.3121 0.5679 0.2698 0.3202
  MSE 0.5354 0.2454 0.3050 0.1368 0.0661 0.0759 0.1418 0.0695 0.0796 0.1449 0.0688 0.0817