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Table 2 Characteristic statistics of the posterior lung cancer SMR distribution, i.e., the distribution of the bias adjusted SMR.

From: Bayesian bias adjustments of the lung cancer SMR in a cohort of German carbon black production workers

 

Analysis

 

CAREX

Expert

 

smoking cohort

smoking case-control

smoking cohort

smoking case-control

 

1

2

3

4

SMR, posterior

    

median

1.00

1.01

1.32

1.32

arithmetic mean

1.21

1.22

1.33

1.34

standard deviation

0.82

0.83

0.34

0.35

2.5%-fractile

0.24

0.25

0.70

0.70

97.5%-fractile

3.31

3.37

2.04

2.07

  1. Findings are reported according to the four analyses described in Table 1.
  2. The number of significant digits displayed is for comparison purposes only. The data set is not of sufficient size to support this accuracy.
  3. Results from MCMC random walks (Metropolis sampler) of length 1,000,000.