Fig. 2. Sensitivity of estimates ${\sigma }_{\mathit{infl}}^2$ to the prior distribution.

Scatter plot illustrates the posterior mean estimate for ${\sigma }_{\mathit{infl}}^2$ using the informative prior with rate v₀=0.015⁻¹ compared to the posterior mean with more diffuse priors (v₀=0.1⁻¹: circles; v₀=1: triangles). Points represent estimates from the same dataset. Results are presented for the r-spline model.