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Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2008 Feb 20;27(4):529–542. doi: 10.1002/sim.3002

Table II.

Sensitivity analysis for the Bayesian-PL approach using different prior distributions for τ and y.

Analysis τ Infection times y μ^ (SE) 95 per cent HDR
Tau1Y1 Γ(0.25, 0.005) Weibull(α, λ) −0.891 (0.277) (−1.423, −0.335)
Tau1Y2 Γ(0.25, 0.005) Weibull(αj, λj), j = 1, 2, 3 −0.866 (0.288) (−1.398, −0.263)
Tau1Y3 Γ(0.25, 0.005) Flat prior −0.924 (0.272) (−1.417, −0.350)
Tau2Y1 Γ(0.001, 0.001) Weibull(α, λ) −0.876 (0.271) (−1.385, −0.326)
Tau2Y2 Γ(0.001, 0.001) Weibull(αj, λj), j = 1, 2, 3 −0.878 (0.283) (−1.392, −0.279)
Tau2Y3 Γ(0.001, 0.001) Flat prior −0.911 (0.250) (−1.360, −0.412)