Table 5.

Average relative width of 95% credible/confidence intervals for β₁ and θ, with the Weibull-MVN model taken as the referent, across six simulation scenarios given in Table 3. Throughout values are based on results from R=500 simulated datasets.

Scenario		Weibull -MVN	Weibull -DPM	Weibull -SF	PEM -MVN	PEM -DPM	Spline -SF
1	β11	1.00	1.00	0.81	1.02	1.02	0.81
	β12	1.00	1.00	0.77	1.04	1.04	0.77
	β13	1.00	1.00	0.84	1.00	1.01	0.83
	θ	1.00	1.00		1.10	1.12
2	β11	1.00	1.00	0.73	1.02	1.02	0.73
	β12	1.00	1.00	0.69	1.03	1.04	0.69
	β13	1.00	1.00	0.76	1.00	1.00	0.76
	θ	1.00	1.00		1.12	1.14
3	β11	1.00	1.00	0.81	1.02	1.02	0.81
	β12	1.00	1.00	0.76	1.04	1.04	0.77
	β13	1.00	1.00	0.83	1.00	1.01	0.83
	θ	1.00	1.00		1.10	1.13
4	β11	1.00	1.00	0.95	1.02	1.01	0.96
	β12	1.00	1.00	0.94	1.03	1.03	0.95
	β13	1.00	1.00	0.96	1.01	1.01	0.96
	θ	1.00	1.00		1.09	1.09
5	β11	1.00	1.00	0.81	1.02	1.02	0.81
	β12	1.00	1.00	0.77	1.03	1.03	0.77
	β13	1.00	1.00	0.83	1.00	1.00	0.83
	θ	1.00	1.00		1.09	1.09
6	β11	1.00	1.00	0.74	0.94	0.95	0.73
	β12	1.00	1.00	0.72	0.96	0.97	0.71
	β13	1.00	1.00	0.76	0.93	0.93	0.75
	θ	1.00	1.00		0.89	0.90