FIG. 8.

Predicted (median, thick; 2.5 percentile, lower thin; 97.5 percentile, upper thin) versus the observed amounts (×) of Cd in whole blood (A) and kidney (B), for the 25 individuals in the validation data set. The percentiles were obtained by Monte Carlo simulation using randomly drawn records from all the 82 kidney donors and posterior distributions obtained in the MCMC analysis with Model 1. The number of observations falling above the 97.5 percentiles or below the 2.5 percentiles is also indicated.