Table 5.

Priors of two-stage Bayesian modeling for simulation studies

True value	Informative priors for model	Informative priors for Se alone	Two-step informative priors for Se alone	Informative priors for Sp alone
Se = 0.6	U(0.5,0.7)	U(0.5,0.7)	U(0.5,U(0.55,0.99))	U(0,1)
Se = 0.7	U(0.6,0.8)	U(0.6,0.8)	U(0.6,U(0.65,0.99))	U(0,1)
Se = 0.8	U(0.7,0.9)	U(0.7,0.9)	U(0.7,U(0.75,0.99))	U(0,1)
Se = 0.9	U(0.85,0.95)	U(0.85,0.95)	U(0.85,U(0.9,0.99))	U(0,1)
Se = 0.95	U(0.90,0.99)	U(0.90,0.99)	U(0.9,U(0.95,0.99))	U(0,1)
Sp = 0.6	U(0.5,0.7)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)	U(0.5,0.7)
Sp = 0.7	U(0.6,0.8)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)	U(0.6,0.8)
Sp = 0.8	U(0.7,0.9)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)	U(0.7,0.9)
Sp = 0.9	U(0.85,0.95)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)	U(0.85,0.95)
Sp = 0.95	U(0.90,0.99)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)	U(0.90,0.99)
π = 0.4	U(0.3,0.5)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)
π = 0.1	U(0.05,0.15)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)
π = 0.01	U(0.005,0.015)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)	U(0,1)

Note: π, prevalence; U, uniform distribution.