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Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2010 Nov 10;29(25):2643–2655. doi: 10.1002/sim.4031

Table 2.

Posterior parameter estimates of fitting asymmetries and variance components to the periodontal progression data. SD, 2,5% and 97.5% represents standard deviation and percentiles from the posterior distributions of parameters, respectively. s denotes parameter significance.

SSL

SCN

Parameter

mean

2.5%

97.5%

mean

λ₁

0.4862^s

0.0575

0.3965^s

0.0391

0.3359

0.4981

0.2635^s

0.0306

0.3701^s

0.0327

λ₂

0.7138^s

0.0765

0.5959^s

0.0286

0.5431

0.6637

0.3619^s

0.0373

0.5032^s

0.0416

σ_{1}^{2}

0.4353

0.0095

0.2464

0.0131

0.2221

0.2731

0.1612

0.0098

0.3323

0.0108

σ_{2}^{2}

0.6889

0.015

0.3546

0.0188

0.3204

0.3938

0.1123

0.0067

0.2286

0.0064

D₁₁

0.4177

0.0522

0.1477

0.023

0.109

0.1971

0.0698

0.0121

0.1549

0.0209

D₁₂

0.5273

0.0642

0.177

0.0263

0.1311

0.2322

0.0797

0.0126

0.1912

0.0246

D₂₂

0.6747

0.0987

0.2238

0.0442

0.1467

0.3193

0.098

0.0185

0.2382

0.0347

ν (ν₁ for SCN)

3.82

0.368

3.1171

4.552

1.041

0.0366

0.3388

0.0338

ν₂

0.2404

0.0079