Table V.

Bias, coverage rate of the 95 per cent interval, standard deviation (SD), for the noninformative and informative priors.

		Noninformative priors			Informative prior
n	Parameter	Bias	Coverage	SD	Bias	Coverage	SD
50	β0=10	−0.002	0.945	0.083	−0.001	0.940	0.084
	β1=−1.5	0.024	0.960	0.112	0.007	0.960	0.112
	β2=1	− 0.114	0.890	0.169	− 0.036	0.980	0.094
	σ2=0.25	0.006	0.955	0.028	0.004	0.955	0.027
	${\sigma }_u^2=0.5$	0.005	0.945	0.176	−0.003	0.970	0.148
	${\sigma }_{uv}=0.4$	− 0.155	0.900	0.355	− 0.001	0.975	0.230
	${\sigma }_v^2=0.5$	0.435	0.970	1.231	0.117	0.985	0.365
	${\gamma }_1^{\left(1\right)}=-1$	0.090	0.910	0.635	0.039	0.950	0.517
	${\gamma }_2^{\left(1\right)}=0.8$	0.244	0.935	1.005	0.050	1.000	0.226
	${\gamma }_1^{\left(2\right)}=-1.5$	−0.379	0.905	2.328	−0.340	0.925	2.680
	${\gamma }_2^{\left(2\right)}=0.5$	0.062	0.955	1.202	0.092	0.930	1.096
	ν(2)=1.2	− 1.071	0.925	1.753	− 0.078	0.980	0.493
100	β0=10	−0.003	0.960	0.058	−0.005	0.950	0.057
	β1=−1.5	0.008	0.930	0.078	0.012	0.940	0.076
	β2=1	− 0.039	0.895	0.137	− 0.027	0.965	0.084
	σ2=0.25	0.001	0.965	0.020	0.001	0.945	0.020
	${\sigma }_u^2=0.5$	0.006	0.975	0.117	−0.006	0.980	0.103
	σuv=0.4	− 0.048	0.870	0.266	− 0.001	0.975	0.165
	${\sigma }_v^2=0.5$	0.110	0.920	0.619	0.070	0.970	0.277
	${\gamma }_1^{\left(1\right)}=-1$	0.033	0.945	0.374	−0.006	0.955	0.342
	${\gamma }_2^{\left(1\right)}=0.8$	0.078	0.945	0.626	0.019	0.990	0.252
	${\gamma }_1^{\left(2\right)}=-1.5$	−0.088	0.960	0.434	−0.052	0.960	0.428
	${\gamma }_2^{\left(2\right)}=0.5$	0.064	0.945	0.740	0.046	0.955	0.668
	ν(2)=1.2	0.056	0.890	1.570	0.034	0.985	0.394

Entries in boldface indicate different results from the two analysis methods.