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. 2010 Dec;52(6):784–797. doi: 10.1002/bimj.200900209

Table 1.

Number of municipalities identified at altered risk by the posterior classification probabilities under the tri-level Poisson-Gamma and convolution BYM models versus q-value. The cut-off level is set to 20%. Lung cancer mortality, males. Tuscany, 1995–1999

Poisson-Gamma posteriorclassification probability q-Value BYM posterior classification probability q-Value


No (>0.20) Yes (≤0.20) No (>0.20) Yes (≤0.20)
No (>0.20) 275 2 No (>0.20) 247 0
Yes (≤0.20) 1 9 Yes (≤0.20) 29 11