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. 2021 Oct 12;10:e65846. doi: 10.7554/eLife.65846

Appendix 2—figure 2. The model parameters were estimated with accuracy, precision and identifiability.

Appendix 2—figure 2.

Posterior z-score (y-axis) measures how closely the posterior recovers the parameters of the true data generating process and posterior contraction (x-axis) evaluates the influence of the likelihood function over the prior, respectively. Smaller absolute posterior z-scores indicate that the posterior accurately recovers the parameters of the true data generating process: the absolute value beyond three to four may indicate substantial bias (Schad et al., 2021). The posterior contraction values close to one indicate that data are much more informative than the prior.