Table 2.

Posterior median estimates (with 95% credible intervals in parentheses) for overall parameters and inter-study/inter-individual standard deviations.

	Posterior median (95% credible interval)
Risk factor/ Parameter	Women		Men
	Overall	SD (inter-	Overall	SD (inter-
	mean	study/ind)	mean	study/ind)
Manual occupation (${\alpha }_1$)	0.56 (−0.33, 1.65)	0.45 (0.02, 2.67)	0.85 (0.01, 1.61)	0.47 (0.03, 1.95)
Underweight (${\alpha }_2$)	−2.22 (−7.61, 2.29)	3.19 (0.27, 12.91)	−2.86 (−6.53, 1.53)	2.76 (0.37, 10.22)
Overweight (${\alpha }_3$)	4.87 (2.27, 7.72)	2.02 (0.79, 7.14)	5.15 (2.97, 7.51)	2.06 (0.98, 5.73)
Device (γ)	−1.04 (−3.94, 2.27)	1.00 (0.04, 7.94)	−3.48 (−12.95, 6.03)	7.46 (3.62, 24.32)
$\log {\sigma }_m$ (log-res sd(MRZ))	2.56 (1.69, 3.44)	0.50 (0.21, 2.52)	2.60 (2.09, 3.12)	0.41 (0.20, 1.35)
$\log {\sigma }_a$ (log-res sd(AO))	2.67 (1.91, 3.43)	0.60 (0.30, 2.00)	2.65 (2.08, 3.21)	0.54 (0.30, 1.44)
θ [individual-level RE]	0	7.07 (6.85, 7.29)	0	9.01 (8.75, 9.28)
φ [study-level RE]	0	5.10 (2.38, 15.92)	0	6.93 (3.49, 18.99)
Number knots (q)	10 (7, 13)	–	12 (9, 16)	–