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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2010 Jun 1;105(490):506–521. doi: 10.1198/jasa.2009.ap09068

Table 1.

Parameter credible intervals, 50% (2.5%, 97.5%) for the synthetic dataset nonspatial and spatial predictive process models. Credible intervals that do not include the parameter’s true value are bolded

Parameter True Nonspatial Anisotropic predictive process
80 knots 125 knots
β1,0 1 7.76 (6.77, 8.87) 2.04 (0.93, 4.69) 1.40 (−0.39, 3.75)
β1,1 5 5.32 (4.72, 5.89) 5.28 (4.78, 5.74) 5.22 (4.83, 5.66)
β2,0 10 3.72 (2.10, 5.09) 10.32 (8.41, 11.90) 13.20 (8.92, 16.60)
β2,1 15 14.99 (14.20, 15.64) 14.99 (14.44, 15.51) 15.01 (14.42, 15.60)
β3,0 20 27.61 (25.86, 29.38) 20.48 (18.34, 22.85) 22.18 (19.69, 30.61)
β3,1 25 25.07 (24.49, 25.64) 24.95 (24.43, 25.49) 24.91 (24.48, 25.39)
Σa;1,1 25 31.26 (22.35, 40.24) 21.58 (15.39, 29.48) 21.20 (13.35, 30.07)
Σa;1,2 25 26.61 (17.98, 35.77) 25.60 (17.85, 35.20) 22.17 (15.31, 30.08)
Σa;1,3 25 27.88 (19.37, 36.34) 25.02 (17.39, 33.95) 23.74 (15.45, 35.87)
Σa;2,2 50 55.65 (41.04, 73.43) 50.37 (33.40, 69.94) 42.03 (30.37, 56.79)
Σa;2,3 50 56.96 (40.23, 70.59) 51.29 (33.84, 63.76) 47.48 (35.00, 62.20)
Σa;3,3 75 75.43 (55.17, 93.81) 77.19 (50.74, 94.29) 84.04 (58.76, 99.72)
Σd;1,1 25 27.54 (19.90, 37.89) 26.70 (20.56, 35.14) 27.29 (20.68, 35.83)
Σd;1,2 25 19.51 (13.84, 28.78) 22.39 (16.04, 28.31) 24.27 (17.76, 31.56)
Σd;1,3 0 −2.39 (−16.28, 8.38) −2.15 (−5.87, 3.32) 2.87 (−2.23, 6.62)
Σd;2,2 50 25.12 (7.69, 46.12) 50.26 (36.58, 60.02) 51.55 (41.26, 62.59)
Σd;2,3 0 0.59 (−8.71, 9.79) −1.31 (−5.80, 8.63) −1.32 (−8.38, 4.53)
Σd;3,3 4 1.79 (0.28, 9.57) 0.93 (0.19, 2.70) 1.31 (0.16, 4.69)