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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 12.
Published in final edited form as: J R Stat Soc Ser C Appl Stat. 2011 Aug;60(4):575–589. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2010.00760.x

Table 4.

Poisson-Gamma model: Coverage of the 100(1 − α/2)% credible intervals for selected quantiles, qK (p), p = 0.05, 0.10, 0.25, 0.50.

K Nominal Coverage K Nominal Coverage
75% 90% 95% 99% 75% 90% 95% 99%
qK (0.05): qK (0.10):
20 77 92 96 99 20 77 92 96 99
60 74 89 94 99 60 73 89 94 99
100 75 90 95 99 100 74 89 95 99
qK (0.25): qK (0.50):
20 77 91 96 99 20 75 90 95 99
60 74 89 95 99 60 75 90 95 99
100 75 90 95 99 100 74 89 95 99