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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2021 May 9;40(17):4014–4033. doi: 10.1002/sim.9011

TABLE 2.

Posterior summary of (hyper-) parameters for our proposed model for the Beam et al. (2003)23 mammogram dataset with 104 radiologists’ classifications of 148 mammograms.

  Parameter Posterior Mean 95% Credible Interval Note  
 
  α1 −2.37 (−2.44, −2.31) Ordinal cut-points  
α2 −1.65 (−1.69, −1.60)
α3 −0.66 (−0.69, −0.63)
α4 1.24 (1.17, 1.30)
τa 0.46 (0.34, 0.59) Rater bias - precision
μb 0.55 (0.49, 0.62) Rater magnifier - mean
τb 80.70 (55.70, 112.01) Rater magnifier - precision