Table 3.

Parameter estimates for the optimal bulk milk model (bulk milk term, overdispersion scaled to gradient term, and logistic link); 95% confidence intervals use the 2.5% and 97.5% quantiles of the posterior distribution estimated from Markov chain Monte Carlo output

Parameter	Median (95% confidence interval)
θ	− 9.629 (− 21.213, − 6.367)
β	0.0912 (0.0593, 0.222)
S	0.859 (0.688, 0.987)
C	0.989 (0.975, 0.998)
σf	9.756 (3.931,28.225)