Research Article

A Demonstration of Modern Bayesian Methods for Assessing System Reliability with Multilevel Data and for Allocating Resources

Table 3

Comparison of posteriors for series system example (0.05, 0.5, 0.95 quantiles).

NodeFully Bayesian Reference [5]

0 (0.393, 0.436, 0.479) (0.403, 0.463, 0.525)
1 (0.588, 0.655, 0.723) (0.701, 0.851, 0.947)
2 (0.820, 0.848, 0.873) (0.830, 0.858, 0.883)
3 (0.901, 0.917, 0.931) (0.908, 0.927, 0.944)
4 (0.886, 0.908, 0.925) (0.858, 0.898, 0.931)
5 (0.926, 0.945, 0.961) (0.889, 0.904, 0.918)