Table 3.

Simulation results for the two-stage methodology related to increased stress level (16) with ${\theta }_1=0.2$ and c = 0.1 from 10,000 replicates.

n	m	r	$n_1^{\ast }$	${\overline{n}}_t$	${\overline{n}}_t/n_1^{\ast }$	${\overline{n}}_t-n_1^{\ast }$	$se\left({\overline{n}}_t\right)$	${\overline{\hat{\theta }}}_1$	$se\left({\overline{\hat{\theta }}}_1\right)$
50	5	25	8.3333	8.8658	1.0639	0.5325	0.0066	0.2054	0.0003
50	10	25	8.3333	10.0040	1.2005	1.6707	0.0006	0.2048	0.0003
100	5	50	16.6667	17.2119	1.0327	0.5452	0.0086	0.2026	0.0002
100	10	50	16.6667	17.2058	1.0323	0.5391	0.0090	0.2026	0.0002
100	15	50	16.6667	17.2221	1.0333	0.5554	0.0093	0.2017	0.0002
300	5	100	33.3333	33.8729	1.0162	0.5396	0.0117	0.2013	0.0001
300	10	100	33.3333	33.8618	1.0159	0.5285	0.0118	0.2012	0.0001
300	15	100	33.3333	33.8621	1.0159	0.5288	0.0122	0.2013	0.0001
500	5	200	66.6667	67.1879	1.0078	0.5212	0.0160	0.2007	0.0001
500	10	200	66.6667	67.2204	1.0083	0.5537	0.0164	0.2007	0.0001
500	15	200	66.6667	67.2044	1.0081	0.5377	0.0164	0.2007	0.0001
1000	15	300	100.0000	100.5416	1.0054	0.5416	0.0199	0.2004	0.0001
1000	20	300	100.0000	100.5826	1.0058	0.5826	0.0198	0.2003	0.0001
1000	30	300	100.0000	100.5489	1.0055	0.5489	0.0201	0.2005	0.0001