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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Educ Psychol Meas. 2014 Oct 28;75(4):677–714. doi: 10.1177/0013164414554931

Table 1.

Parameter estimates across simulations with varying effect sizes

No Main Effect/Moderate Interaction Main Effect/Moderate Interaction

True Value Mean SD SE Min 25% 75% Max True Value Mean SD SE Min 25% 75% Max
Class 1 intercept 0.00 −0.03 0.03 0.04 −0.49 −0.05 −0.01 0.04 0.00 −0.02 0.09 0.07 −0.93 −0.05 0.04 0.16
Class 2 intercept 0.00 0.03 0.14 0.04 −0.04 0.01 0.04 3.13 0.50 0.50 0.05 0.05 0.35 0.47 0.54 0.66
Class 1 slope 0.20 0.18 0.12 0.08 −1.62 0.13 0.25 0.45 0.20 0.19 0.06 0.06 −0.16 0.15 0.23 0.34
Class 2 slope 0.70 0.71 0.07 0.06 0.44 0.66 0.75 0.99 0.70 0.70 0.05 0.05 0.51 0.67 0.73 0.91
Class 1 Proportion 0.50 0.60 0.08 0.50 0.54 0.65 1.00 0.50 0.57 0.05 0.50 0.53 0.60 0.86

No Main Effect/Strong Interaction Main Effect/Strong Interaction

Class 1 intercept 0.00 −0.03 0.03 0.04 −0.17 −0.04 −0.01 0.04 0.00 0.00 0.05 0.05 −0.20 −0.04 0.03 0.16
Class 2 intercept 0.00 0.03 0.03 0.04 −0.04 0.01 0.04 0.16 0.50 0.50 0.04 0.04 0.38 0.48 0.53 0.64
Class 1 slope 0.00 −0.01 0.08 0.07 −0.31 −0.06 0.05 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.06 0.06 −0.18 −0.04 0.04 0.18
Class 2 slope 0.70 0.70 0.05 0.05 0.55 0.67 0.73 0.88 0.70 0.70 0.04 0.04 0.57 0.68 0.73 0.88
Class 1 Proportion 0.50 0.56 0.05 0.50 0.52 0.59 0.76 0.50 0.55 0.03 0.50 0.52 0.57 0.70

Note: The mean is the average parameter estimate across all 500 simulations, the SD is the standard deviation of the parameter estimate, and the SE is the median estimated standard error for the parameter estimate. The SE is not directly available for the class proportions.