TABLE 6.

Posterior Summaries for Time-Dependent Partially-Missing Within-Study Correlations on the CKD-EPI Data

Analyses Evaluating ACR-Based Effects
Analyses Using All Available Within-Study Correlations
	β Summary R2 Summary
	0.77(−0.01,1.57)	0.35(0.01,0.85)
Analyses With Partially Missing Within-Study Correlations
	Mean Impute (d)		Informative Uniform Prior (e)		Hierarchical Beta Prior (Uniform) (g)		Hierarchical Beta Prior (Conservative) (g)
	β Summary	R2 Summary	p Summary	R2 Summary	p Summary	R2 Summary	p Summary	R2 Summary
PM = 0.2	0.79(−0.04,1.64)	0.36(0.00,0.85)	0.79(−0.02,1.63)	0.35(0.01,0.86)	0.76(−0.02,1.62)	0.33(0.00,0.81)	0.62(−0.25,1.44)	0.22(0.00,0.74)
PM = 0.8	0.77(−0.02,1.61)	0.35(0.00,0.83)	0.85(0.03,1.69)	0.40(0.01,0.90)	0.90(0.12,1.74)	0.44(0.01,0.90)	0.61(−0.19,1.46)	0.24(0.00,0.80)
Analyses Evaluating GFR Chronic Slope-Based Effects
Analyses Using All Available Within-Study Correlations
	β Summary	R2 Summary
	−0.45(−0.63,−0.28)	0.90(0.51,0.99)
Analyses With Partially Missing Within-Study Correlations
	Mean Impute (d)		Informative Uniform Prior (e)		Hierarchical Beta Prior (Uniform) (g)		Hierarchical Beta Prior (Conservative) (g)
	β Summary	R2 Summary	β Summary	R2 Summary	β Summary	R2 Summary	β Summary	R2 Summary
PM = 0.2	−0.45(−0.60,−0.29)	0.91(0.54,0.99)	−0.45(−0.61,−0.29)	0.92(0.56,0.99)	−0.44(−0.61,−0.28)	0.91(0.52,0.99)	−0.44(−0.60,−0.28)	0.91(0.52,0.99)
PM = 0.8	−0.46(−0.62,−0.30)	0.95(0.63,0.99)	−0.46(−0.63,−0.30)	0.94(0.63,0.99)	−0.46(−0.63,−0.31)	0.95(0.67,0.99)	−0.44(−0.60,−0.28)	0.92(0.55,0.99)

Letters (e.g. (d)) displayed correspond to those used to define missing data handling strategies introduced in-text.

PM: Proportion Missing; Summaries are the posterior median and, in parentheses, the 95% credible interval.