Research Article

Estimation of Poisson-Dirichlet Parameters with Monotone Missing Data

Table 3

Performance of the estimate of with .

Sample size
0.1 1 5 10

Bias Level 1 −0.018 0.067 0.107 0.047
Level 2 0.019 0.052 0.022 0.081
Level 3 0.012 0.012 0.114 0.032

SD Level 1 0.230 0.429 0.971 1.653
Level 2 0.210 0.369 0.746 1.105
Level 3 0.202 0.369 0.779 1.187

MSE Level 1 0.053 0.189 0.954 2.821
Level 2 0.044 0.138 0.556 1.228
Level 3 0.041 0.137 0.620 1.410