Research Article

Power Prior Elicitation in Bayesian Quantile Regression

Table 3

Posterior means of 𝛽 ( 𝑝 ) for the real data. In the parentheses are standard deviations of 𝛽 𝑝 .

𝑝 𝑎 0 Mean 𝛽 0 ( 𝑝 ) Mean 𝛽 1 ( 𝑝 ) Mean 𝛽 2 ( 𝑝 ) Mean of 𝛽 3 ( 𝑝 ) Mean of 𝛽 4 ( 𝑝 )

0.900.107.2114 (0.432) 0.0237 (0.035) 0.0201 (0.019) −0.0005 (0.017)−0.1036 (0.021)
0.25 7.3455 (0.441) 0.0240 (0.039) 0.0193 (0.013) −0.0002 (0.021)−0.0900 (0.019)
0.50 7.3701 (0.357) 0.0212 (0.031) 0.0109 (0.011) −0.0002 (0.018)−0.0864 (0.013)
0.757.3704 (0.332) 0.0210 (0.027) 0.0109 (0.009) −0.0001 (0.014)−0.0819 (0.012)
0.907.3732 (0.263) 0.0201 (0.022) 0.0106 (0.009)−0.0001 (0.012)−0.0827 (0.007)

0.750.106.8264 (0.337)0.0231 (0.026)0.0252 (0.013) −0.0005 (0.015)−0.0455 (0.027)
0.257.0158 (0.227)0.0228 (0.011)0.0252 (0.019) −0.0001 (0.014)−0.0328 (0.022)
0.507.0173 (0.316)0.0216 (0.011)0.0159 (0.012) −0.0004 (0.010)−0.0145 (0.017)
0.757.0408 (0.216)0.0203 (0.010)0.0117 (0.010) −0.0004 (0.011)−0.0097 (0.016)
0.907.0391 (0.117)0.0191 (0.010)0.0112 (0.008) −0.0004 (0.011)−0.0085 (0.013)

0.50.106.3933 (0.221)0.0269 (0.013)0.0354 (0.018)−0.0008 (0.022)0.0137 (0.024)
0.25 6.7117 (0.117)0.0250 (0.009)0.0306 (0.013)−0.0006 (0.020) 0.0471 (0.019)
0.50 6.7130 (0.113)0.0149 (0.010)0.0265 (0.012)−0.0006 (0.017) 0.0487 (0.018)
0.756.7163 (0.113)0.0193 (0.008)0.0110 (0.009)−0.0002 (0.018)0.0631 (0.016)
0.906.7928 (0.105)0.0136 (0.008)0.0110 (0.009)−0.0002 (0.012)0.0633 (0.013)

0.250.106.2386 (0.328)0.0216 (0.024)0.0165 (0.019)−0.0003 (0.019)0.0794 (0.018)
0.25 6.3479 (0.317)0.0201 (0.029)0.0162 (0.017)−0.0002 (0.024)0.0897 (0.016)
0.50 6.3624 (0.306)0.0177 (0.018)0.0139 (0.023)−0.0002 (0.018)0.0921 (0.011)
0.756.3703 (0.219)0.0167 (0.015)0.0146 (0.013)−0.0002 (0.014)0.0937 (0.009)
0.906.3986 (0.201)0.0142 (0.014)0.0120 (0.012)−0.0004 (0.013)0.0937 (0.007)

0.10.105.8857 (0.357)0.0200 (0.019)0.0238 (0.025) −0.0006 (0.017)0.0766 (0.017)
0.25 5.9255 (0.311)0.0142 (0.018)0.0301 (0.013) −0.0007 (0.016)0.1022 (0.023)
0.50 5.9308 (0.299)0.0114 (0.023)0.0329 (0.011) −0.0007 (0.015)0.1239 (0.018)
0.755.9550 (0.271)0.0110 (0.014)0.0302 (0.015)−0.0006 (0.012)0.1403 (0.018)
0.905.9592 (0.248)0.0095 (0.013)0.0366 (0.012) −0.0008 (0.012)0.1496 (0.014)