A Bayesian latent class mixture model with censoring for correlation analysis in antimicrobial resistance across populations

Table 3 Simulation results based on different true values of correlations, estimated by Bayesian and naïve methods

True correlation	Method	Mean estimation bias	Root of mean squared error
0.80	Bayes	−0.0219	0.0927
	Naïve	−0.1972	0.2134
0.46	Bayes	−0.0025	0.1461
	Naïve	−0.1002	0.1510
0.30	Bayes	+0.0115	0.1621
	Naïve	−0.0561	0.1360

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