Table 1.

Posterior estimates and Monte Carlo standard errors (MCSEs) for the first 10 items in the CBASE data.

Item	$\widehat{\mathrm{\alpha }}$	MCSE	$\widehat{\mathrm{\beta }}$	MCSE	$\widehat{\mathrm{\beta }}/\widehat{\mathrm{\alpha }}$
1	0.4280	0.0013	−0.5273	0.0009	−1.2320
2	0.2993	0.0005	−0.5884	0.0004	−1.9659
3	0.3316	0.0002	−1.0379	0.0003	−3.1300
4	0.3061	0.0015	−1.2878	0.0008	−4.2071
5	0.3952	0.0009	−1.1658	0.0014	−2.9499
6	0.7231	0.0018	−0.8883	0.0013	−1.2285
7	0.3302	0.0006	−0.4362	0.0006	−1.3210
8	0.4612	0.0009	−1.1996	0.0008	−2.6010
9	0.4669	0.0007	−0.1065	0.0005	−0.2281
10	0.4943	0.0008	−0.0358	0.0008	−0.0724