Table 8 Posterior medians and 95 per cent posterior credible intervals for the application of the dependent and independent models to simulated dependent and independent data (two-step informative priors for sensitivities alone were assigned (see Table 5 ))

π = 0.10

0.0963 (0.0830,0.1151)

0.1184 (0.1088,0.1277)*

0.1030 (0.0919,0.1162)

0.1000 (0.0900,0.1107)

Se ₁  = 0.70

0.6985 (0.6048,0.7960)

0.7971 (0.7841,0.7999)*

0.6558 (0.6028,0.7847)

0.6979 (0.6068,0.7940)

Se ₂  = 0.80

0.7935 (0.7044,0.8950)

0.8965 (0.8818,0.8999)*

0.7864 (0.7030,0.8942)

0.7994 (0.7057,0.8942)

Sp ₁  = 0.80

0.7978 (0.7775,0.8196)

0.8866 (0.8700,0.9028)*

0.7948 (0.7740,0.8156)

0.8002 (0.7801,0.8205)

Sp ₂  = 0.70

0.6981 (0.6792,0.7164)

0.7677 (0.7511,0.7846)*

0.6966 (0.6764,0.7170)

0.6992 (0.6797,0.7191)

pD

3.87

3.08

3.87

3.38

DIC

58.63

323.08

58.63

58.76