Table 2-1. Simulation results for the likelihood-based inference. The true values ofr and A were
 set at 0.3 and 10 during the simulation. In each case, 1000 data sets were simulated.


A(median)
13.810
10.264
10.559
17.780
11.663
10.675
16.335
14.972
11.817
17.191
21.894
21.350


Standard
error of r
0.1560
0.1312
0.1013
0.1824
0.1580
0.1381
0.2081
0.1745
0.1690
0.3647
0.2775
0.2406
0.1741
0.1512
0.1826


R
100
100
100
50
50
50
25
25
25
10
10
10
50
50
25


r(mean)
0.264
0.268
0.282
0.251
0.265
0.278
0.263
0.260
0.266
0.405
0.301
0.279
0.253
0.276
0.251


Standard
error of A
10.4509
10.4873
7.7381
14.0927
10.2470
9.7201
7.5950
13.7354
11.5440
8.0814
8.3268
12.8811
24.4756
18.5343
24.9698


A(mean)
16.737
15.666
13.024
21.003
16.813
14.911
17.799
19.517
17.726
20.141
19.039
20.373
26.181
18.832
26.950


Optimization
method
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
BFGS
Nelder-Mead
Nelder-Mead
Nelder-Mead