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Table 3 Results of simulations for data generated from a latent growth model as in Eqs. (14)-(15)

From: Longitudinal mediation analysis with multilevel and latent growth models: a separable effects causal approach

Misspecification

True

Estimates

Rel. bias

RMSE

Coverage rate

SDE

SIE

SDE

SIE

SDE

SIE

SDE

SIE

SDE

SIE

Moderate

0.140

0.000

0.138

0.000

-0.017

0.000

0.078

0.000

0.966

1.000

0.410

0.160

0.479

0.089

0.169

-0.445

0.124

0.074

0.878

0.308

0.680

0.319

0.821

0.177

0.207

-0.445

0.212

0.149

0.852

0.230

0.950

0.479

1.162

0.266

0.223

-0.445

0.309

0.222

0.838

0.206

1.220

0.639

1.504

0.354

0.233

-0.445

0.407

0.297

0.832

0.210

Severe

-

-

0.252

0.038

0.802

0.038

0.130

0.039

0.460

1.000

-

-

0.456

0.112

0.031

-0.030

0.127

0.029

0.874

0.892

-

-

0.625

0.329

-0.081

0.031

0.172

0.056

0.868

0.894

-

-

0.770

0.546

-0.190

0.131

0.271

0.110

0.734

0.802

-

-

0.897

0.794

-0.265

0.242

0.402

0.199

0.586

0.646

  1. For every model, each row refers to a different time \(t=1,\dots ,5\)