Because the type of treatment (monotherapy or polypharmacy) was not randomly assigned in these prior studies, patients with specific characteristics, such as disease severity, could have been more likely to have been treated with polypharmacy.
Information from the past 2 years (2007 2008) served as inputs for PM, including all International Statistical Classification of Diseases, (10th Revision, German modi-fication, ICD-10-GM) diagnostic codes assigned in outpatient and inpatient settings, prior costs, hospital admissions, and demographic data.
More precisely, we consider effects of the form β [Hijp], p = m, f, where the index p, or phase, is treated as missing data in the corresponding Bayesian model, assigning the prior probability of 0.5 to both m and f.
BPP uses gamma priors G on the population size parameters and on the age of the root in the species tree (τ 0 ), with prior mean α/ β and prior variance α/ β 2. The other divergence time parameters were assigned the Dirichlet prior (equation 2 in [ 15]).
Other divergence time parameters were assigned the Dirichlet prior.
They were assigned a uniform prior in the interval (0,1] for ν and a uniform prior for s for the range of (0,Q], with Q being 100. At each round of the Gibbs sampler that was implemented, samples of s 2 where obtained from Gamma (s 2 | σ g i 2, ν ).
Apart from the edge rates themselves, the model has two hyperparameters, namely the mean m and the variance v of the Γ-distribution, which are both assigned uniform priors in the interval [0, 1000].
Depending on the percentage of ECP in the dataset and on the weight assigned to the g-prior, bias in variance component estimation could be avoided.
