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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 23.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Appl Stat. 2008;2(4):1409–1431. doi: 10.1214/08-AOAS193

Table 5.

VAX003: Summary of the posterior distributions of other parameters for the overall study population

With Incarceration Injection History Without Incarceration Injection History
Posterior Quantiles ORinc ρ γ αλa βλb α β αλa βλb α β
Median 0.47 0.50 0.47 0.24 1.87 0.23 1.36 0.20 1.25 0.23 5.28
2.5% 0.30 0.48 0.44 0.21 1.60 0.20 1.12 0.19 1.18 0.22 4.85
97.5% 0.72 0.52 0.51 0.27 2.24 0.26 1.66 0.21 1.32 0.25 5.75
a

Shape of the gamma distribution for contact rate.

b

Scale of the gamma distribution for contact rate.