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Published in final edited form as: Health Serv Outcomes Res Methodol. 2009 Mar 1;9(1):22–38. doi: 10.1007/s10742-008-0040-0

Table 1.

Results for ${\hat{P}}_{k}$ and $\tilde{P} (0.8)$ . In the multi-year section, 100 × OC(0.8) is for the indicated year as estimated from the multi-year model and ₈₈90₉₂ is a notation for posterior median 90 and 95% credible interval (88, 92) (Louis and Zeger 2008)

	Single year: (ϕ ≡ 0)				Multi-year: 100 × ϕ ∼ ₈₈90₉₂)
Parameter	1998	1999	2000	2001	1998	1999	2000	2001
100 × ζ	-2.8	-1.3	-2.3	-0.7	-3.1	-0.8	-1.7	-0.3
100 × τ	24.1	23.5	23.1	22.2	25.8	25.0	24.9	24.1
100 × $O C {\tilde{p}}_{(0.8)} (0.8)$	62	61	60	62	49	47	46	50
LV( ${\hat{P}}_{k}$ )	62				4