Table 3.
Summaries of posterior distributions constructed for the ICC and the model standard deviations, between-study Sb and within-study Sw.
| Variable | Posterior mean (SD) | MC error | 2.5% percentile | 25% percentile | Posterior median | 75% percentile | 97.5% percentile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICC | 0.0607 (0.0937) | 0.000145 | 0.00131 | 0.012 | 0.0296 | 0.0682 | 0.330 |
| Sb | 1.224 (0.409) | 0.00369 | 0.633 | 0.940 | 1.156 | 1.43 | 2.217 |
| Sw | 0.345 (0.0874) | 0.000413 | 0.206 | 0.284 | 0.335 | 0.395 | 0.546 |
ICC: intracluster correlation coefficient; SD: standard deviation; MC: Monte Carlo.