Table 3.

Performance in classification, estimation, and compute time, over 30 synthetic datasets.

Method	Hmsc		MALA	SM-MALA	SiMPA
Prior on rand. eff.	non-spatial	NNGP	QMGP
Avg. AUC	0.827	0.885	0.882	0.874	0.885
Min. AUC	0.573	0.608	0.392	0.530	0.609
Max. AUC	0.969	0.983	0.986	0.987	0.984
${‖{\stackrel{\mathrm{ˆ}}{\mathrm{\Omega }}}_{\text{corr}}-{\mathrm{\Omega }}_{\text{corr}}‖}_F$	1.66	1.43	1.46	1.91	1.14
Avg. time (minutes)	5.15	17.4	0.44	0.73	0.53