A Flexible Bayesian Parametric Proportional Hazard Model: Simulation and Applications to Right-Censored Healthcare Data

Table 10

Posterior characteristics of the hazard ratio between two men of the same age and diagnosis year but in different tumour stages.

Posterior characteristics	Stages 3 and 4	Stages 2 and 4	Stages 2 and 3
Mean	0.467	0.280	0.638
Standard deviation (SD)	0.203	0.149	0.298
Naïve SE	0.001	0.001	0.002
Time series SE	0.002	0.001	0.002
2.5%	0.197	0.088	0.218
Lower quartile (Q1)	0.326	0.175	0.423
Medium (Q2)	0.425	0.250	0.585
Upper quartile (Q3)	0.564	0.349	0.791
97.5%	0.967	0.648	1.366