\begin{table}[t] \centering\small \begin{threeparttable} \caption{Empirical log-log slopes of the RMS scaled gap to $\widehat\theta_N$ against $m$ at fixed $N$ (largest $N$ of each design), with the slopes predicted by the leading bias term.}\label{tab:mc_rates} \begin{tabular}{@{}llrrrrrrrrr@{}} \toprule Design & $p$ & $N$ & r1\_q0 & r1\_q1 & r1\_q2 & r2\_q0 & r2\_q1 & r3\_q0 & r3\_q1 & cs\_q1 \\ predicted & & & -1 & -2 & -4 & -2 & -4 & -3 & -6 & -4 \\ \midrule exp & 1 & 1,048,576 & -1.02 & -2.04 & -4.11 & -1.36 & -2.59 & -1.11 & -2.12 & -1.05 \\ exp contam & 1 & 1,048,576 & -0.90 & -1.81 & -3.62 & -1.10 & -2.12 & -1.47 & -2.76 & -1.50 \\ logit & 3 & 1,048,576 & -1.04 & -2.08 & -4.21 & -2.92 & -8.16 & -3.47 & -9.96 & -1.13 \\ logit & 8 & 1,048,576 & -1.03 & -2.07 & -4.15 & -1.40 & -2.94 & -1.71 & -5.46 & -1.09 \\ logit illcond & 8 & 1,048,576 & -1.10 & -2.25 & -4.51 & -3.87 & -11.27 & -5.30 & -15.59 & -1.95 \\ logit misspec & 3 & 1,048,576 & -1.04 & -2.10 & -4.20 & -2.10 & -4.69 & -4.00 & -10.10 & -2.00 \\ pois & 3 & 1,048,576 & -1.02 & -2.04 & -4.15 & -1.22 & -2.78 & -1.96 & -3.98 & -1.07 \\ pois & 8 & 1,048,576 & -1.03 & -2.06 & -4.11 & -1.28 & -2.48 & -2.14 & -4.53 & -1.07 \\ \bottomrule \end{tabular} \begin{tablenotes}\footnotesize \item Slopes are least-squares fits over the available $m$ grid; they approach the predicted exponent only where the bias term dominates the random remainder and the sample is in the asymptotic regime. The predicted slope for the Cox--Snell + 1 Newton estimator assumes an exact first-order bias formula ($-4$). Source: \texttt{results/processed/summary.csv}. \end{tablenotes} \end{threeparttable} \end{table}