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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 6.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Trials. 2013 Aug 27;10(5):720–734. doi: 10.1177/1740774513497539

Table 3.

Estimated probability of response and standard errors

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4
Null
 Truth 0.05 0.05 0.1 0.2
 Simon 0.05 (0.05) 0.05 (0.05) 0.09 (0.06) 0.18 (0.08)
 Independent Bayes 0.04 (0.04) 0.04 (0.04) 0.08 (0.06) 0.16 (0.09)
 Hierarchical Bayes 0.05 (0.02) 0.05 (0.02) 0.09 (0.04) 0.14 (0.06)
Alternative
 Truth 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.4
 Simon 0.18 (0.08) 0.18 (0.08) 0.28 (0.09) 0.39 (0.09)
 Independent Bayes 0.19 (0.08) 0.19 (0.08) 0.29 (0.10) 0.39 (0.10)
 Hierarchical Bayes 0.20 (0.04) 0.20 (0.04) 0.30 (0.05) 0.40 (0.05)
One in the Middle
 Truth 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.5
 Simon 0.18 (0.08) 0.18 (0.08) 0.18 (0.08) 0.50 (0.09)
 Independent Bayes 0.19 (0.08) 0.19 (0.08) 0.18 (0.09) 0.50 (0.09)
 Hierarchical Bayes 0.20 (0.04) 0.20 (0.04) 0.26 (0.06) 0.44 (0.07)
All in the Middle
 Truth 0.15 0.15 0.2 0.3
 Simon 0.13 (0.07) 0.13 (0.07) 0.18 (0.08) 0.28 (0.09)
 Independent Bayes 0.13 (0.08) 0.13 (0.08) 0.18 (0.09) 0.28 (0.11)
 Hierarchical Bayes 0.14 (0.04) 0.14 (0.04) 0.21 (0.05) 0.29 (0.07)
One Nugget
 Truth 0.05 0.05 0.1 0.4
 Simon 0.05 (0.05) 0.05 (0.05) 0.09 (0.06) 0.39 (0.09)
 Independent Bayes 0.04 (0.04) 0.04 (0.04) 0.08 (0.06) 0.39 (0.10)
 Hierarchical Bayes 0.06 (0.03) 0.06 (0.03) 0.11 (0.05) 0.32 (0.12)
2 Null, 2 Alternative
 Truth 0.05 0.05 0.3 0.4
 Simon 0.05 (0.05) 0.05 (0.05) 0.28 (0.09) 0.39 (0.09)
 Independent Bayes 0.04 (0.04) 0.04 (0.04) 0.29 (0.09) 0.39 (0.10)
 Hierarchical Bayes 0.08 (0.04) 0.08 (0.04) 0.26 (0.08) 0.35 (0.09)