Table 2.

A comparison between the medians and 95% credible intervals of the posterior distributions for each parameter after fitting the mathematical model to each data set

Parameter	Zai (A16R)	Zai (Sterne)	Charlton (Sterne)	Dstl (Sterne)
f	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.996 (0.988, 0.999)
g	N/A	N/A	N/A	1.92 (1.15, 4.79)
ε	0.55 (0.13, 0.87)	0.44 (0.05, 0.90)	0.51 (0.08, 0.91)	0.51 (0.06, 0.94)
m	0.14 (2 × 10−3, 4.6)	0.17 (3 × 10−3, 4.6)	0.08 (2 × 10−3, 4.7)	0.10 (2 × 10−3, 6.3)
λ	0.54 (0.47, 0.62)	0.63 (0.57, 0.68)	0.50 (0.47, 0.55)	0.97 (0.70, 1.34)
K	9 × 106 (8 × 106, 107)	107 (107, 1.1 × 107)	6 × 106 (4 × 106, 107)	108 (5 × 107, 3 × 108)
α	2 × 10−7 (5 × 10−8, 3 × 10−6)	4 × 10−10 (2 × 10−12, 3 × 10−8)	3 × 10−6 (10−7, 7 × 10−5)	2 × 10−10 (2 × 10−12, 7 × 10−8)
β	10−4 (3 × 10−5, 2 × 10−3)	2 × 10−5 (2 × 10−5, 4 × 10−5)	3 × 10−2 (10−3, 5 × 10−1)	4 × 10−6 (10−6, 2 × 10−4)
ν0	2 × 10−4 (3 × 10−6, 10−2)	2 × 10−4	2 × 10−4	2 × 10−4
ν	3 × 10−6 (4 × 10−8, 4 × 10−5)	7 × 10−7 (2 × 10−7, 3 × 10−6)	7 × 10−12 (3 × 10−15, 3 × 10−7)	4 × 10−8 (2 × 10−9, 5 × 10−6)
τ1	3.8 (0.8, 8.4)	0.5 (0.1, 1.7)	7.9 (1.3, 13.9)	8.8 (5.1, 13.5)
τ2	16.5 (7.9, 19.2)	10.8 (8.7, 13.5)	12.6 (1.6, 22.7)	20.6 (14.0, 23.8)

The values of ν₀ in bold indicate fixed values that were used.