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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2014 Sep 25;110(512):1479–1490. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2014.960967

Table 2.

Squared error comparison over 100 replicates. Average squared error across replicates reported for DL (Dirichlet–Laplace) with a = 1/n and a = 1/2, LS (Lasso), EBMed (Empirical Bayes median), PM (Point mass prior), BL (Bayesian lasso) and HS (horseshoe). Signal strength A = 7, 8.

n 100 200


qnn%
5 10 20 5 10 20






A 7 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7 8 7 8
DL1/n 8.20 7.19 17.29 15.35 32.00 29.40 16.07 14.28 33.00 30.80 65.53 59.61
DL1/2 11.77 11.87 17.57 18.36 30.24 30.42 20.30 22.70 36.51 35.30 61.43 65.79

LS 21.25 19.09 38.68 37.25 68.97 69.05 41.82 41.18 75.55 75.12 137.21 136.25
EBMed 13.64 12.47 29.73 27.96 60.52 60.22 26.10 25.52 57.19 56.05 119.41 119.35
PM 12.15 10.98 25.99 24.59 51.36 50.98 22.99 22.26 49.42 48.42 101.54 101.62
BL 33.05 33.63 49.85 50.04 68.35 68.54 64.78 69.34 99.50 103.15 133.17 136.83
HS 8.30 7.93 18.39 16.27 37.25 35.18 15.80 15.09 35.61 33.58 72.15 70.23