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. 2011 Aug 10;6(8):e22075. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022075

Table 1. The posterior probability results for the simulated data sets.

prior probability sample size times true model was highest avg. posterior probability of true models avg. posterior probability of best false models avg. posterior probability of all false models
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The 1st column shows whether the smaller or larger priors were used; the 3rd column shows the number of times (out of 7000 data sets) the true (i.e., the data-generating) model had the highest posterior probability; the 4th column shows the average posterior probability of the true models; the 5th column shows the average posterior probability of the most probable false models (in each of the 7000 data sets); and the last column shows the average posterior probabilities of all false models.