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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Stat Softw. 2007 Apr;19(2):nihpa22751.

Table 3.

ESS for log posterior density, ρ and median (range) of 200 sample function values by dataset for the three parameterizations: 1.) modified Wikle with η2 fixed at 0.32, 2.) original Wikle parameterization and sampling approach, and 3.) block sampling.

Sampling Method
Quantity Dataset modified Wikle original Wikle block sampling
Data1 193 NM 54
LP Data2 205 NM 25
Data3 447 NM 53
Data5 646 NM NM

Data1 146 NM 107
ρ Data2 145 NM 40
Data3 414 NM NM
Data5 289 22 NM

Data1 597 (90-1808) 125 (13-321) 551 (247-1166)
f Data2 2137 (229-4231) 56 (9-166) 473 (198-873)
Data3 657 (307-3232) 298 (106-737) 33 (7-139)
Data5 2021 (467-8971) 467 (127-1100) 25 (6-83)