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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Cancer Res. 2013 Jan 9;19(6):1326–1334. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-12-1223

Table 6.

Examples of different degree of borrowing for data in Table 1

Model Probability(response rate in subgroup 5 > 30% | data)
Scenario 1 Scenario 2
Subgroup specific analysis
No borrowing
Model: Beta-binomial
.437 .437
Hierarchical model (Thall et al)
No Borrowing
Mean of precision hyperprior .01 (Gamma(2,200))
.459 .446
Moderate borrowing
Mean of precision hyperprior .1 (Gamma(2,20))
.453 .382
Strong borrowing
Mean of precision hyperprior 1 (Gamma(2,2))
.464 .160