Table 3.

Priors implemented by default in BUGSnet

	Consistency Model		Inconsistency Model
Parameters	Random effect	Fixed effect	Random effect	Fixed effect
μ1, …, μM	iid N(0,(15u)2) Except when a log link is used with a binomial family, in which case μi = log(pi), pi~ iid U(0,1) as per Warn et al. [23]
d1, 2, …. ,d1, T	iid N(0,(15u)2)		NA
d1, 2, …. ,d1, T, …,  dT − 2, T − 1, dT − 2, T, dT − 1, T	NA		iid N(0,(15u)2)
σ	U(0,u)	NA	U(0,u)	NA
β(1, 2), …, β(1, K) (meta-regression only)	Unrelated: iid t(0, u2, df = 1) Exchangeable: iid N(b, γ2), b~ t(0, u2, df = 1), γ~U(0, u) Equal: β2 = … = βT = B, B~ t(0, u2, df = 1)