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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 12.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Appl Stat. 2010 Mar 1;4(1):439–459. doi: 10.1214/09-AOAS278

TABLE 4.

Posterior 95% intervals for the patient effects for various modeling/prior choices for the full model with spatial correlation, patient dependent variance and informative observation location. “Ref group” refers to the response that has slope bj fixed to one, “u, v” and “w” are the hyperparameters for the covariance parameters and regression coefficients, respectively, as described in Section 2.3.To facilitate comparison across reference groups,the intervals for β/b1 are presented

Ref group CAL PPD BOP CAL
u, v 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.001
w 10 10 10 10
Spatial grid 1 1 1 1
Age (0.023, 0.086) (0.025, 0.088) (0.007, 0.079) (0.039, 0.110)
Female (−0.168, −0.104) (−0.175, −0.108) (−0.052, −0.031) (−0.169, −0.097)
BMI (−0.009, 0.050) (−0.012, 0.052) (−0.003, 0.015) (−0.015, 0.054)
Smoker (0.019, 0.075) (0.020, 0.077) (0.005, 0.023) (0.009, 0.075)
Hba1c (0.106, 0.171) (0.110, 0.174) (0.033, 0.054) (0.122, 0.190)
Ref group CAL CAL CAL
u, v 0.1 0.1 0.1
w 1000 10 10
Spatial grid 1 2 3

Age (0.039, 0.109) (0.023, 0.068) (0.038, 0.105)
Female (−0.174, −0.096) (−0.150, −0.103) (−0.167, −0.097)
BMI (−0.017, 0.050) (−0.009, 0.035) (−0.011, 0.054)
Smoker (0.009, 0.076) (0.024, 0.067) (0.010, 0.074)
Hba1c (0.119, 0.191) (0.117, 0.164) (0.111, 0.176)