Table 1 Simulation results of \(\gamma _1\), \(\gamma _2\) under MCAR mechanism, reporting the estimated bias, mean squared error (MSE), and 95% confidence interval coverage in percentage (Coverage), along with corresponding Monte Carlo standard errors (MCSE) of estimate (Est).
 |  | n=100 | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
cc | locf | twos | mi | wmi | |||||||
Est | MCSE | Est | MCSE | Est | MCSE | Est | MCSE | Est | MCSE | ||
\(\gamma _1\) | Bias | 0.089 | 0.128 | 0.064 | 0.124 | 0.020 | 0.083 | 0.082 | 0.090 | 0.174 | 0.055 |
MSE | 0.016 | 0.002 | 0.015 | 0.003 | 0.007 | 0.001 | 0.008 | 0.001 | 0.003 | 0.000 | |
Coverage | 94.0 | 2.375 | 95.0 | 1.940 | 90.0 | 3.000 | 93.0 | 2.551 | 96.0 | 1.960 | |
\(\gamma _2\) | Bias | -0.913 | 0.745 | 0.570 | 0.777 | 0.352 | 0.522 | -0.578 | 0.622 | 8.062 | 0.482 |
MSE | 0.557 | 0.092 | 0.601 | 0.094 | 0.271 | 0.042 | 0.387 | 0.051 | 0.880 | 0.083 | |
Coverage | 95.0 | 2.179 | 97.0 | 1.900 | 97.0 | 1.706 | 90.0 | 3.000 | 80.0 | 3.984 | |
 |  | n=200 | |||||||||
\(\gamma _1\) | Bias | 0.060 | 0.128 | 0.033 | 0.122 | 0.030 | 0.088 | 0.030 | 0.062 | 0.167 | 0.058 |
MSE | 0.016 | 0.002 | 0.015 | 0.002 | 0.008 | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.001 | |
Coverage | 93.0 | 2.551 | 93.0 | 2.551 | 92.0 | 2.713 | 95.0 | 2.179 | 97.0 | 2.120 | |
\(\gamma _2\) | Bias | -0.828 | 0.735 | 1.188 | 0.824 | 8.445 | 0.503 | -0.363 | 0.425 | 0.059 | 0.498 |
MSE | 0.542 | 0.091 | 0.686 | 0.080 | 0.963 | 0.093 | 0.180 | 0.021 | 0.246 | 0.034 | |
Coverage | 96.0 | 1.960 | 95.0 | 2.179 | 61.0 | 4.877 | 96.0 | 1.960 | 98.0 | 2.110 | |
 |  | n=300 | |||||||||
\(\gamma _1\) | Bias | -0.003 | 0.118 | 0.021 | 0.084 | 0.011 | 0.094 | 0.026 | 0.062 | 0.028 | 0.056 |
MSE | 0.014 | 0.002 | 0.007 | 0.001 | 0.009 | 0.001 | 0.004 | 0.001 | 0.003 | 0.000 | |
Coverage | 93.0 | 2.551 | 89.0 | 3.129 | 96.0 | 2.110 | 95.0 | 2.179 | 98.0 | 1.400 | |
\(\gamma _2\) | Bias | 9.447 | 0.734 | 0.326 | 0.518 | -0.502 | 0.544 | -0.316 | 0.427 | 0.450 | 0.483 |
MSE | 1.426 | 0.164 | 0.267 | 0.041 | 0.296 | 0.048 | 0.182 | 0.023 | 0.233 | 0.029 | |
Coverage | 74.0 | 4.386 | 97.0 | 1.706 | 97.0 | 2.050 | 97.0 | 1.706 | 93.0 | 2.551 |