. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 27.

Published in final edited form as: Stat Biosci. 2010 Jul 1;2(1):1–17. doi: 10.1007/s12561-010-9018-x

Table 2.

Summary of priors (standard error parameters) and computed ESSs of the example for cross-tabulated counts in Carlin [1].

	σ̃_α	σ̃_β	σ̃_γ	ESS	ESS_μ	ESS_α	ESS_β	ESS_γ
N1	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.3	< 0.001	2.0	3.0	6.0
N2	1.5	2.0	2.0	3.7	< 0.001	3.6	3.0	6.0
N3	2.0	1.5	2.0	3.0	< 0.001	2.0	5.3	6.0
N4	2.0	2.0	1.5	3.0	< 0.001	2.0	3.0	10.6
N5	1.5	1.5	1.5	4.1	< 0.001	3.6	5.3	10.6
N6	1.5	1.5	1.0	6.0	< 0.001	3.6	5.3	23.9
N7	1.5	1.5	0.5	16.3	< 0.001	3.6	5.3	96.1
N8	0.5	0.5	1.5	24.4	< 0.001	32.0	48.0	10.6
N9	0.5	0.5	1.0	26.3	< 0.001	32.0	48.0	24.0
N10	0.5	0.5	0.5	36.6	< 0.001	32.0	48.0	96.1