. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 11.

Published in final edited form as: Bayesian Anal. 2008 Jul 1;3(3):585–614. doi: 10.1214/08-BA323

Table 6.

Estimates of the β under Model (Ag, Ch, BMI) and Model (Ag, S, D, Ch, BMI) for the Chapman Data when a₀ = 0.01

		Maximum Likelihood Estimates			Posterior Estimates
Model	Variable	Estimate	SE	p-value	Estimate	SE	95% HPD Interval
M₂₂	Intercept	−2.252	0.275	< .0001	−2.265	0.272	(−2.805, −1.748)
	Ag	0.556	0.245	0.0230	0.554	0.242	(0.087, 1.032)
	Ch	0.405	0.233	0.0816	0.402	0.234	(−0.064, 0.854)
	BMI	0.470	0.204	0.0211	0.465	0.207	(0.069, 0.882)

M₃₂	Intercept	−2.248	0.274	< .0001	−2.292	0.273	(−2.828, −1.766)
	Ag	0.527	0.270	0.0507	0.531	0.270	(0.012, 1.067)
	S	0.106	0.336	0.7523	0.097	0.344	(−0.583, 0.757)
	D	−0.077	0.383	0.8417	−0.069	0.383	(−0.806, 0.687)
	Ch	0.404	0.235	0.0857	0.402	0.240	(−0.074, 0.866)
	BMI	0.474	0.226	0.0361	0.473	0.230	(0.028, 0.930)