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Published in final edited form as: IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2002 May;21(5):441–449. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2002.1009380

TABLE IV.

Values of estimated linear model parameters using different forms of the varying assumed distribution and the fixed true distribution

	a₁	a₂	a₃
True Values	0.6	0.7	0.8
pr_a(Θ)=Normal/pr_t(Θ)=Beta	0.56±.04	0.65±.05	0.74±.06
pr_a(Θ)=Beta/pr_t(Θ)=Normal	0.66±.10	0.78±.09	0.89±.12

	b₁	b₂	b₃

True Values	−0.1	0.0	0.1
pr_a(Θ)=Normal/pr_t(Θ)=Beta	−0.09±.02	0.01±.02	0.12±.03
pr_a(Θ)=Beta/pr_t(Θ)=Normal	−0.14±.06	−0.06±.06	0.03±.07

	σ₁	σ₂	σ₃

True Values	0.05	0.03	0.08
pr_a(Θ)=Normal/pr_t(Θ)=Beta	0.050±.005	0.029±.004	0.080±.007
pr_a(Θ)=Beta/pr_t(Θ)=Normal	0.050±.007	0.025±.011	0.079±.009