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Table 3 Bayesian analyses for the Illawarra and Brisbane, ABC cancer clusters

From: Bayesian versus frequentist statistical inference for investigating a one-off cancer cluster reported to a health department

 

Illawarra, Leukaemia

Brisbane, ABC, Breast cancer

Uninformative prior

  

   posterior mode

3.15

5.62

   95% credible interval

(1.78, 5.64)

(3.00, 10.67)

95% prior interval (0.22, 10.0)

  

   posterior mode

3.15

5.08

   95% credible interval

(1.84, 5.45)

(2.82, 9.22)

95% prior interval (0.29, 4.0)

  

   posterior mode

2.55

3.56

   95% credible interval

(1.53, 4.28)

(2.04, 6.27)

95% prior interval (0.67, 1.5)

  

   posterior mode

1.32

1.36

   95% credible interval

(0.95, 1.84)

(0.96, 1.91)

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