TABLE 6.

Serum PFOS Concentration BMC (μg/ml) for Possible Effect on Lowering HDL

Sex	BMCL1sd	BMC	BMCU1sd
Male	74.259	104.409	145.736
Female	76.373	106.148	145.869

Reported are the 5th percentile, the mean, and the 95th percentile from the 30 000 samples from the posterior distribution of BMC estimates obtained in the MCMC implementation, as the BMCL, BMC and BMCU, respectively. A typical choice for the BMCL corresponds to a 5% 1-sided bound; hence the choice of the fifth percentile from the distribution of BMC estimates. Together, the BMCL_1sd and BMCU_1sd represent a 90% credible interval for the BMC.