Measurement errors in (spatially lagged) explanatory variables under the classical-errors-in variables assumption are not routinely accounted for in applied (spatial) research, in spite of their serious consequences. Particularly, the estimator of coefficients of variables measured with error but also of those not measured with error are biased and inconsistent. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare by way of Monte Carlo simulation two bias correction methods, i.e. Monte Carlo Expectation-Maximization (MCEM) and Bayesian approach (BA). We consider spatial lag model (SLX) with different spatial correlation of covariate of interest, different measurement error variances and sample sizes. We use relative bias (RelBias) and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) as valuation criteria. The main result is that the Bayesian approach and MCEM method outperform the Naive model without measurement error correction. Moreover, the Bayesian approach performs better than MCEM method.