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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 25.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiology. 2013 Jan;24(1):90–95. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31827623ea

TABLE 2.

Parameter Estimates for the Excess Relative Rate/10mGy due to Gamma Radiation (β1) and Tritium (β2)

Outcome Truncation Gamma Radiation
Tritium
β1 (90% Highest Posterior Density Intervalsa) Width of Confidence Interval β2 (90% Highest Posterior Density Intervalsa) Width of Confidence Interval
Leukemia β2 ≥ β1 0.034 (−0.031 to 0.110) 0.141 0.298 (0.027 to 0.702) 0.676
None 0.053 (−0.025 to 0.142) 0.168 0.141 (−0.323 to 0.649) 0.972
Leukemia excluding chronic lymphocytic leukemia β2 ≥ β1 0.082 (−0.017 to 0.206) 0.224 0.344 (0.049 to 0.817) 0.768
None 0.176 (0.011 to 0.375) 0.266 −0.281 (−1.136 to 0.548) 1.684
a

Highest posterior density intervals are the Bayesian complement to the confidence interval.