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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 22.
Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2007 Jun;63(2):610–617. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00722.x

Table 1. Posterior means (M) and SDs from bivariate Poisson and univariate logistic models fit to teratology data. Reference splotch allele group has neither parent with splotch allele.

Bivariate Poisson model Logistic model


Complete data Nonzero subset Induced Estimated




Part of model M SD M SD M SD M SD
With exencephaly
 Intercept −1.57 0.89 −2.15 0.96 −4.69 1.08 −5.20 1.21
 Blood glucose level 0.0012 0.0011 0.0022 0.0012 0.0041 0.0014 0.0046 0.0016
 Splotch allele group
  Father 0.33 0.43 0.41 0.43 0.39 0.48 0.53 0.52
  Mother 0.56 0.51 0.53 0.50 0.73 0.58 0.82 0.62
Without exencephaly
 Intercept 2.78 0.46 2.53 0.45
 Glucose level −0.0024 0.00064 −0.0019 0.00063
 Splotch allele group
  Father −0.027 0.21 0.013 0.21
  Mother −0.21 0.29 −0.20 0.28
Random effect variances
 With exencephaly 0.64 0.31 0.53 0.25 0.81 0.34 0.87 0.48
 Without exencephaly 0.24 0.082 0.20 0.063
 Correlation 0.040 0.25 −0.12 0.24