Table 5. Notation of the hyper-parameters in the Dirichlet prior distributions.

	Prior Hyper-parameters
	MM	Mm	mm	Total
Cases (Y = 1)	α11	α12	α13	α1.
Controls(Y = 0)	α01	α02	α03	α0.
Total	α.1	α.2	α.3	α

The table defines the mathematical notation for the hyper-parameters of the Dirichlet distribution used in the methods.