Table 1.

The prior and posterior medians and lower and upper limits of the posterior equally tailed 95% credible intervals for the sensitivity and specificity of ELISA and Western blot (WB)

Parameters	Prior information		Posterior information
	Values of apparent parameters		Values of true parameters
	Panel I	Panel II	(as median and the 95% CI)b
ELISA Se	0.939 (0.803–0.981)	0.966 (0.904–0.988)	0.969 (0.927–0.993)
ELISA Sp	0.98 (0.896–0.985)	0.909 (0.763–0.967)	0.944 (0.880–0.983)
WB Se	0.969 (0.842–0.993)	0.966 (0.904–0.988)	0.974 (0.935–0.995)
WB Sp	0.96 (0.865–0.988)	0.909 (0.763–0.967)	0.944 (0.880–0.983)

^aCl – Wilson binomial confidence limits

^bCI – Bayesian credible interval