Table 1.

Selected microbial genera by the three candidate shrinkage priors using 95% Credible Intervals for cigarette smokers (reference level set to non-smoker). The mean column refers to the estimated posterior mean ${\widehat{\beta }}_{\mathit{ij}}$

Smoking Status: Cigarette Baseline: Non-smoker
Bayes-Lasso	Mean	HS	Mean	HS+	Mean
Fusobacterium	$-$3.43475	Fusobacterium	$-$0.10024	Fusobacterium	$-$0.12071
Gemella	$-$3.93223	Gemella	$-$0.15	Gemella	$-$0.24661
Haemophilus	$-$0.17698	Haemophilus	$-$0.14241	Haemophilus	$-$0.23351
Neisseria	$-$3.16806	Neisseria	$-$3.17861	Neisseria	$-$3.20674
Rothia	0.118395	Rothia	0.116904	Rothia	0.069546
Veillonella	0.151276	Streptococcus	0.027135
Actinomyces	0.10477	Veillonella	0.139699
Prevotella	0.056836